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Indian fintech operates under one of the most specific data localization regimes in the world. The Reserve Bank of India has published progressive guidance since 2018 requiring payment system data to be stored in India, with subsequent extensions to other categories of financial data. The rules aren't optional. For fintechs operating in India - whether payment providers, lending platforms, wealth managers, or neo-banks - the localization requirements shape fundamental infrastructure choices.

India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, passed in 2023 and enforced through subsequent rules, has reshaped the landscape for data hosting decisions for anyone processing personal data of Indian residents. The Act creates specific obligations that map directly onto infrastructure choices: where data can be stored, how consent has to be managed, what security measures are required, and what happens if things go wrong.

GPU cloud security tends to get discussed as if it's the same problem as general cloud security. It isn't. GPUs sit between processes in ways CPUs don't. Training data passes through them in patterns that create specific exposure. Model weights derived from sensitive data are themselves sensitive material in ways most procurement processes don't recognize. And the multi-tenant nature of public GPU cloud creates failure modes that don't exist in CPU-only environments.

The GPU cloud conversation over the last three years has been almost entirely captured by AI. Marketing pages talk about training, inference, and foundation models. Vendor announcements focus on which NVIDIA card fits which LLM. Reference customers are AI companies. The infrastructure decisions being made in the market are shaped by AI's specific requirements - high VRAM, fast interconnect, FP8 support, continuous utilization patterns.

The Blackwell architecture arrived in 2024 as NVIDIA's answer to the next era of AI compute. The B200 set a new standard for inference performance, memory capacity, and training throughput, and many teams are still ramping up their use of it today. Then came Blackwell Ultra. The B300 is built on the same silicon foundation as the B200: same dual-reticle die design, same TSMC 4NP process node, same NVLink 5 interconnect.

AI wasn't supposed to move this fast. Twelve months ago, the H100 was still the benchmark everyone measured themselves against. Six months ago, the B200 changed the calculus for serious inference workloads. Now there's the B300, NVIDIA's Blackwell Ultra GPU, and it doesn't just move the goalposts. It takes them off the pitch entirely. The B300 is the highest-performance GPU in the Blackwell family.

July has been one of our most structurally significant releases yet for Konstruct. With 0.6, we've shipped a second git provider, a completely reworked authorization model, new tooling for AI-assisted troubleshooting, and a handful of improvements that are smaller in scope but large in impact for day-to-day platform operations. Let's walk through what shipped and why it matters. You can explore the full 0.6 release notes directly in the docs.

As businesses in India embrace the cloud, a critical question looms: Where does your data really live, and who controls it? India's cloud market is estimated at USD 26.43 billion in 2026, growing at 21% annually with projections reaching USD 68.82 billion by 2031. This rapid expansion underscores the strategic importance of cloud infrastructure in the country, but with growth comes growing urgency.

This blog was released off the back of our white paper, The Cost of Cloud 2025 - India Edition. Research was conducted with over 600 Indian tech professionals to create a comprehensive analysis of the Indian cloud market.

The phrase "cloud first" dominated IT strategy for the better part of a decade. It was gospel, practically unchallengeable, and for a lot of organizations, it was the right call. But something shifted between 2024 and 2026, and it shifted fast. Bills stopped being defensible. Vendor pricing imploded. Sovereignty stopped being a compliance checkbox and became a procurement requirement.