“Before, companies and startups had to lay up all this capital for data centers and servers, and take your scarce resource, which in most companies is engineers, and have them work on the undifferentiated heavy lifting of infrastructure. What the cloud has done is completely flipped that model on its head so that you only pay for what you consume.”

American business executive, since 2021

Andrew R. Jassy is an American business executive. Since July 2021, he has served as president and chief executive officer of Amazon, succeeding founder Jeff Bezos, who remained executive chairman. Jassy founded Amazon Web Services and led it from the start. He was its chief executive from April 2016 until July 2021, after helping build it into Amazon’s cloud computing division.