manish tiwaryamazon is optimistic and committed to the indian market despite the ups and downs it has faced a top company executive told et as the online retailer completes a decade in the countrywhile there will be some ups and downs i would say we are as excited if not more with the prospect of what we can achieve in india manish tiwary vice president and country manager amazon india consumer business said in an interviewamazons 10th anniversary in india coincides with the ecommerce behemoth cutting costs laying off thousands of employees shuttering nonperforming experiments and resetting its overall business globally after two years of unprecedented growth in online shopping that was fuelled by covidled lockdowns advt under chief executive andy jassy who took over from amazon founder jeff bezos in 2021 focus has sharpened on profitability as he looks to rein in costs this is starkly different from the bezos mantra of growth over profitability for over 25 years as a publicly listed firmrecently adam selipsky chief executive officer of amazon web services aws told et that the seattleheadquartered company will invest about 127 billion to expand its business in india till 2030 selipsky was appointed aws chief after jassys elevationtiwary a hindustan unilever veteran who joined amazon in 2016 said the aws investment is a reflection of amazons commitment to india and not indicative of focus shifting away from commerceultimately a businesstobusiness b2b vertical also has to depend on businesstoconsumer b2c and therefore the bullishness in terms of investment in india continues to be there he said its across think of prime video they have close to 100 originals still under production nothing much has changed between january and may some of these global dark clouds were there but we launched prime air recently and thats a pretty big commitment prime air is amazons airline cargo unit which reduces shipping time significantly it was launched in india in january this year advt amazon india has trimmed its workforce across a few rounds of layoffs as reported by et in november last year and earlier this monthcommerce biz critical to indiathe commerce business is as important tiwary told et where amazon has ploughed in 65 billion to build infrastructure like supply chain logistics and warehousing all of which were nonexistent when it started operations in indiai still remember my first meeting with amit agarwal who started amazons india unit we always said we have to change the way india buys and sells in a sustainable manner and if we want to make a difference we have to work with the ecosystem partners tiwary said in 2021 amazon decided to push exports to 20 billion he said along with that we said we will employ 2 million people indirectly we are already at 11 million in the past ten years we have already become a part and parcel of peoples lives a lot of the innovation which has happened today in ecommerce and when we see other marketplaces d2c brands