CEO Andy Jassy announced that Adam Selipsky will be replaced by sales and product leader Matt Garman in June. Credit: Michael Vi / Shutterstock The CEO of AWS, Adam Selipsky, has stepped down from his role as of May 14, ending what Amazon president and CEO Andy Jassy described as a successful three-year tenure and passing the torch to “the next generation of leadership,” according to an official blog post on the matter. Selipsky was hired as a VP at Amazon in 2005, and spent 11 years as the boss of AWS sales and marketing before a stint as CEO of Tableau, Amazon’s statement said. “[Selipsky] took over in the middle of the pandemic, which presented a wide array of leadership and business challenges,” Jassy wrote. “Under his direction, the team made the right long-term decision to help customers become more efficient in their spend, even if it meant less short-term revenue for AWS.” The development and deployment of several of Amazon’s key generative AI features, including Bedrock and Amazon Q, were also overseen by Selipsky, Jassy noted. AWS is “in a a strong position,” he added, as it has topped $100 billion in annual revenue rates as of the previous quarter and continues to perform well in terms of reliability, security and performance. Selipsky’s replacement, as of June 3, will be Matt Garman, who started at Amazon as an intern in 2005 and has been a product manager of various units, including EC2 and EBS, as well as general manager of AWS Compute. Most recently, Garman has worked on the demand generation side of AWS as leader of the worldwide sales and marketing team. “Matt knows our customers and business as well as anybody in the world, and has senior leadership experience on both the product and demand generation sides,” Jassy wrote. Garman has been intimately involved with AWS from the beginning of his Amazon career, according to the blog post, helping to create pricing plans, feature sets, and even service-level agreements at one of Amazon’s most important enterprise-facing business units. AWS is also central to Amazon’s generative AI strategy, given cloud computing’s centrality to generative AI overall. Jassy has spoken recently about the importance of generative AI, along with his hopes to make it the next “pillar” of the Amazon’s lineup. “If you asked me today, I’d lead with generative AI,” he said in his annual letter to shareholders in April. “We’re optimistic that much of this world-changing AI will be built on top of AWS.” Related content news Nvidia unveils new Blackwell systems, accelerates release of Spectrum-X networking The systems, announced at Computex in Taipei, will power what the company calls ‘AI factories’. By Lynn Greiner Jun 02, 2024 4 mins Generative AI GPUs news Singapore government pushes energy-efficient data center plan The city state is looking at greener energy sources and wants to make every aspect of data center energy consumption, from cooling to coding, more efficient. By John Leyden May 31, 2024 4 mins Energy Efficiency Data Center Design Data Center Management news Everyone but Nvidia joins forces for new AI interconnect Hyperscalers and chip makers, including AMD, Broadcom, Cisco, Google, HPE, Intel and Microsoft, are partnering to develop a high-speed chip interconnect to rival Nvidia’s NVLink technology. By Andy Patrizio May 30, 2024 4 mins CPUs and Processors Data Center news AT&T taps Cisco fixed 5G wireless gateways for WAN service Cisco Meraki devices are also part of fixed 5G wireless services from T-Mobile and Verizon. By Michael Cooney May 30, 2024 3 mins 5G Wireless Security WAN PODCASTS VIDEOS RESOURCES EVENTS NEWSLETTERS Newsletter Promo Module Test Description for newsletter promo module. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe