Hong Kong (CNN Business) Amazon (AMZN) is capping off a big week in India with an eye-catching pledge to help create a million new jobs in the country.

The company said Friday that it expects the jobs to be added over the next five years through ongoing investments in its operations on the ground.

These openings will be "created both directly and indirectly ... and are in addition to the 700,000 jobs Amazon's investments have enabled over the last six years in India," it said in a statement.

Amazon is investing in its technology and logistics networks, and says the new positions will span areas such as IT, cloud computing, retail and manufacturing.

The announcement came just days after the company made another major commitment: CEO Jeff Bezos, who is visiting India this week, said Wednesday that Amazon would allocate $1 billion to helping 10 million small and medium-sized businesses around the country get online by 2025.

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