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We asked several analysts to identify the top problems he will have to address in his new role. Continue reading 3 analysts weigh in: What are Andy Jassy’s top priorities as Amazon’s new CEO?
When the Pentagon killed the JEDI cloud program yesterday, it was the end of a long and bitter road for a project that never seemed to have a chance. The question is why it didn’t work out in the end, and ultimately I think you can blame the DoD’s stubborn adherence to a single vendor […] Continue reading The single vendor requirement ultimately doomed the DoD’s $10B JEDI cloud contract
When AWS CEO Andy Jassy announced in an email to employees yesterday that Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky was returning to run AWS, it was probably not the choice most considered. But to the industry watchers we spoke to over the last couple of days, it was a move that made absolute sense once you thought […] Continue reading Why Adam Selipsky was the logical choice to run AWS
When Amazon announced last month that Jeff Bezos was moving into the executive chairman role, and AWS CEO Andy Jassy would be taking over the entire Amazon operation, speculation began about who would replace Jassy. People considered a number of internal candidates viable, such as Peter DeSantis, vice president of global infrastructure at AWS and […] Continue reading Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky is returning to AWS to replace Andy Jassy as CEO
Last month Jeff Bezos announced he would step down as CEO of Amazon later this year, moving into the executive chairman role, while passing the baton to AWS CEO Andy Jassy. Could Marc Benioff, co-founder, chairman and CEO at Salesforce be the next big-name executive to make a similar move? A Reuter’s story published on […] Continue reading Could Marc Benioff be the next CEO to move to executive chairman?
Amazon, Microsoft and IBM have each elevated people who ran their cloud divisions to the CEO role. Continue reading Is overseeing cloud operations the new career path to CEO?
Blockbuster news struck late this afternoon when Amazon announced that Jeff Bezos would be stepping back as CEO of Amazon, the company he built from a business in his garage to worldwide behemoth. As he takes on the role of executive chairman, his replacement will be none other than AWS CEO Andy Jassy. With Jassy […] Continue reading What Andy Jassy’s promotion to Amazon CEO could mean for AWS
When Amazon Web Services launched QuickSight, its business intelligence service, back in 2016 the company wanted to provide product information and customer information for business users — not just developers. At the time, the natural language processing technologies available weren’t robust enough to give customers the tools to search databases effectively using queries in plain […] Continue reading AWS adds natural language search service for business intelligence from its data sets
At AWS re:Invent today, Andy Jassy announced DevOps Guru, a new tool for DevOps teams to help the operations side find issues that could be having an impact on an application performance. Consider it like the sibling of CodeGuru, the service the company announced last year to find issues in your code before you deploy. […] Continue reading AWS announces DevOps Guru to find operational issues automatically
Today at AWS re:Invent, Andy Jassy talked a lot about how companies are making a big push to the cloud, but today’s container-focussed announcements gave a big nod to the data center as the company announced ECS Anywhere and EKS Anywhere, both designed to let you run these services on-premises, as well as in the […] Continue reading AWS brings ECS, EKS services to the data center, open sources EKS