A little bit over three years in the past when Jeff introduced my new function, one among my first jobs was to determine who’d take over and lead AWS. It was vital to me that we had anyone who understood AWS, valued our tradition, would supply robust continuity, and will continue to grow the enterprise. We had robust leaders in AWS, a number of of whom may lead the general enterprise within the long-term, however who’d profit from just a few extra years gaining expertise and studying underneath a extra seasoned CEO.
Adam Selipsky was one of many first VPs we employed in AWS again in 2005, and spent 11 years excellently main AWS Gross sales, Advertising and marketing, and Help, earlier than leaving to develop into the CEO of Tableau. I’ve all the time had numerous respect for Adam, and we met a number of instances to debate the opportunity of coming again to guide AWS. In these conversations, we agreed that if he accepted the function, he’d seemingly do it for just a few years, and that one of many issues he’d deal with throughout that point was serving to put together the following technology of management.
We had been lucky that Adam agreed to step in and lead AWS, and has deftly led the enterprise, whereas additionally creating his management crew. Adam is now going to maneuver onto his subsequent problem (after taking a well-deserved respite), and Matt Garman will develop into CEO of AWS, efficient June third.
I’d prefer to thank Adam for all the things he’s completed to guide AWS over the previous three years. He took over in the midst of the pandemic, which introduced a wide selection of management and enterprise challenges. Beneath his course, the crew made the precise long-term choice to assist prospects develop into extra environment friendly of their spend, even when it meant much less short-term income for AWS. All through, the crew continued to invent and launch new providers at a fast clip, together with a number of impactful Generative AI providers, corresponding to Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Q. Adam leaves AWS in a powerful place, having reached a $100 billion annual income run fee this previous quarter, with YoY income accelerating once more. And maybe most significantly, AWS continues to guide on operational efficiency, safety, reliability, and the general breadth and depth of our providers. I’m deeply appreciative of Adam’s management throughout this time, and for your entire crew’s dedication to ship for patrons and the enterprise.
As a few of it’s possible you’ll know, Matt began at Amazon as a MBA intern throughout the summer season of 2005, and joined the corporate full-time in 2006 as one of many first AWS product managers. Initially working throughout all of AWS, Matt helped create our first service degree agreements, outline new options, and create new pricing plans. He then grew to become our first product supervisor for EC2, and led EC2 product administration in its early, youth. Throughout that point, he additionally led the crew that outlined, launched, and operated EBS. Matt finally grew to become the overall supervisor of all AWS Compute providers in 2016, which he did for about 4 years. In 2020, after having been deeply concerned in our product group for 14 years, I requested Matt to maneuver to the demand technology facet of AWS to guide WW Gross sales, Advertising and marketing, Help, and Skilled Companies.
Matt has an unusually robust set of abilities and experiences for his new function. He’s very buyer targeted, a terrific product chief, ingenious, a intelligent problem-solver, proper quite a bit, has excessive requirements and significant bias for motion, and within the 18 years he’s been in AWS, he’s been one of many higher learners I’ve encountered. Matt is aware of our prospects and enterprise in addition to anyone on the earth, and has senior management expertise on each the product and demand technology sides. I’m excited to see Matt and his excellent AWS management crew proceed to invent our future—it’s nonetheless such early days in AWS.
Thanks once more to Adam for his management, and please be a part of me in congratulating Matt.
Andy
