Sauce Labs has expanded its Real Device Cloud platform to India, adding local device infrastructure and data-locality options for customers with engineering teams in the country.
The new Indian deployment includes in-country iOS and Android devices alongside the AURA software stack, giving developers and automated systems direct access through application programming interfaces.
The expansion comes as more large customers build out engineering operations in India, now a major centre for software development and quality engineering. Citing figures from the Octoverse 2025 report, Sauce Labs said India added more than 5.2 million developers in 2025, the highest number for any country, and is projected to reach 57.5 million developers by 2030.
The company added that 80% of its biggest customers already run engineering teams in India. It said the rise in AI-assisted coding is increasing the volume of software that must be checked before release, driving demand for low-latency access to real devices in the same region as development teams.
Local access
The Indian region extends the company's Real Device Cloud with access to locally hosted iOS and Android devices. It also gives organisations an in-region option to meet data-locality requirements.
The setup includes programmatic access through the Real Device Access API, allowing AI agents and developer scripts to connect directly to real mobile devices from integrated development environments. The system is designed to work alongside existing tools rather than replace them.
The Indian operation will run under the same security and AI governance framework used across the company's wider infrastructure. Sauce Labs said it holds ISO 42001 certification and that the India data centre will be included in its next ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 recertification process.
The expansion also reflects the company's existing footprint in the country. Sauce Labs has an R&D centre in India, which it said gives customers a way to work more closely with the engineers building the platform.
Growth market
Sauce Labs, which traces its roots to the teams behind Selenium and Appium, positions AURA as its platform for release assurance. The company said the system is intended to help teams create, run and analyse tests while keeping human oversight in place.
The broader argument is that software testing is shifting from checking whether code functions to confirming whether a release matches business intent. Sauce Labs said the platform has been informed by more than 8.7 billion test executions and is used by more than 300,000 enterprise users, including eight of the world's 10 largest financial institutions.
Prince Kohli, Chief Executive Officer of Sauce Labs, said the expansion was intended to match both the scale of software development in India and the faster pace of AI-assisted coding.
"India is where a growing share of the world's software, and the AI that helps write it, gets built," said Prince Kohli, Chief Executive Officer of Sauce Labs. "Our customers need to know that every release does what the business intended. With AURA in India, they can verify releases against business intent close to where the code is written, at the speed at which code is now being written. This maintains trust in shipped software even as humans are less and less involved in its creation. With one of our R&D centers also situated in India, customers have the confidence of easy access to experts as well."