April 2016
Andy Jassy named AWS CEO
Amazon named Andy Jassy CEO of Amazon Web Services in April 2016 — formalizing his leadership of the cloud division he built since 2003.
What it was for
Jassy grew AWSAmazon Web Services — the dominant cloud platform for compute, storage, and managed infrastructure. from an internal infrastructure experiment into the template for modern cloud computing — EC2, S3, and managed services changed how startups and enterprises deploy software.
People
- Andy Jassy — ceo
Companies
- Amazon
Why it's here
Jassy led the business that defined public cloud infrastructure.
Why it mattered
AWSAmazon Web Services — the dominant cloud platform for compute, storage, and managed infrastructure. made on-demand compute and storage the default deployment model for new software.
What it solved
TeamsMicrosoft Teams — chat, video calls, and Office integration for workplace collaboration. bought servers months in advance instead of scaling elastically with demand.
Media
ImageAndy JassyLisi Mezistrano Wolf, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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