“We'd realized in the first ten years we'd built an infrastructure competence deep in the stack - reliable, scalable cost effective data centers to grow the Amazon retail biz the way we needed to. But we'd built Amazon so quickly that a number of the pieces of the platform had become entangled.”

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.