India, Feb. 2 -- Budgets often promise direction. Rarely do they offer duration. The Union Budget 2026-27 does both for Cloud computing in India.

The announcement of a cloud tax holiday for foreign Cloud providers using Indian datacentres may sound technical. It is not. It is one of the clearest policy signals India has sent to global technology investors in years.

The most important word in the announcement is not tax. It is certain.

Cloud infrastructure is not built on annual plans. Hyperscale datacentres work on 15-20 year horizons. Until now, India struggled to align policy timeframes with infrastructure realities.

Shailesh Dudani, Senior Vice President, & BU Head Sales, CMS IT Services, frames this shift clearly:

"The tax holida...