![]() In some ways it feels like when Larry Ellison stepped down as CEO of Oracle in 2014 to take on the exact same executive chairman role. It’s unclear what impact the executive shuffle will have on the company at large or AWS in particular. Microsoft stands at around 20% marketshare compared to AWS’s approximately 33% market share. No other cloud infrastructure vendor, even the mighty Microsoft, is even close in this category. That puts the company on an elite $50 billion run rate. In the company earnings report released today, AWS came in at $12.74 billion for the quarter up 28% YoY from $9.6 billion a year ago. Under Andy’s leadership, AWS has grown to be one of the biggest technology companies in the world and one of the most impactful in defining what the future of computing will be,” Anderson said.ĪWS is sick of waiting for your company to move to the cloud Also, it’s worth noting that Andy Jassy has an impressive track record of building and running a very large business. “Amazon is a company driven by technology innovation, something Andy has been doing at AWS for many years now. ![]() I expect he’ll remain close to that organization.”Įd Anderson, a Gartner analyst also sees Jassy as the obvious choice to take over for Bezos. “I think this is more of an AWS gain, in terms of its increasing strategic importance to Amazon going forward, rather than loss in terms of losing Andy as direct lead. Smith adds that this move should enhance AWS’s place in the organization. Bezos can go out on a high and focus on his many other ventures,” Smith said. Jassy is the second most public-facing figure at Amazon and has lead one of its most successful business units. “This move has been coming for some time. Jeff Bezos will no longer be CEO of Amazon as of later this yearĪlex Smith, VP of channels, who covers the cloud infrastructure market at analyst firm Canalys, says the writing has been on the wall that a transition was in the works. ensures that the new Amazon CEO does not break the ‘golden goose’,” Mueller told me. “On the finance side it makes sense to appoint an executive who intimately knows Amazon’s most profitable business, that operates in more competitive markets. Holger Mueller, a senior analyst at Constellation Research, says that Jassy is being rewarded for doing a stellar job raising AWS from a tiny side business to one on a $50 billion run rate. Amazon was not ready to comment on a successor yet with the hand-off still months away. Nobody knows for sure though, and it could be any number of people inside the organization, or even someone from outside. Both are members of Bezos’ elite executive team known as the S-team and either would make sense as Jassy’s successor. Among the names being tossed about in the rumor mill are Peter DeSantis, vice president of global infrastructure at AWS and Matt Garman, who is vice president of sales and marketing. With Jassy moving into his new role at the company, the immediate question is who replaces him to run AWS. As he takes on the role of executive chairman, his replacement will be none other than AWS CEO Andy Jassy. Blockbuster news struck late this afternoon when Amazon announced that Jeff Bezos would be stepping back as CEO of Amazon, the company he built from a business in his garage to worldwide behemoth.
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