Andy Jassy

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Andrew R. Jassy (born January 13, 1968) is an American business executive serving as president and chief executive officer of Amazon.com, Inc. since July 5, 2021. Jassy, who earned both his bachelor's and MBA degrees from Harvard University, joined Amazon in 1997 after working at the management consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and briefly as a product manager at Kiodex. He founded Amazon Web Services (AWS) in its early development phase around 2003, overseeing its public launch in 2006 and serving as its CEO from April 2016 until assuming the top role at the parent company. Under his leadership, AWS grew into Amazon's dominant profit engine, accounting for the majority of the company's operating income through scalable cloud infrastructure services that disrupted traditional IT models and powered much of the internet's backend operations. As CEO, Jassy has prioritized cost-cutting measures, including workforce reductions exceeding 27,000 positions amid post-pandemic adjustments, and enforced stricter office return policies to enhance productivity, amid ongoing regulatory scrutiny over Amazon's market dominance in e-commerce and cloud computing.

In brief

Andy Jassy joined Amazon early and was asked to imagine renting computing the way a utility rents power. AWS became the company’s profit engine and the default cloud for much of the web.

In 2021 he became Amazon’s chief executive. The promotion was less a surprise than a recognition: he had already built the more important company inside the company.