![]() ![]() ![]() Jassy focused on creating a solution to this challenge and went on to pitch it to the senior leadership team of Amazon with a memo that – by Amazon’s rules – was less than six pages in length. He realized this spoke to a larger issue the business world was dealing with that would only become more pressing as technology and software development continued to carve a dominant role in business. Jassy – who had a few years of experience working for Amazon when he pitched AWS – recognized that his developers were often “reinventing the wheel” in their jobs, rather than using their time to build something that would help customers. The man spearheaded the initial AWS project in 2003 and has been leading the $26B cloud computing company business ever since Ultimately accounting for 71% of Amazon’s total operating income. No need to tell that to AWS’s CEO (and future Amazon CEO) Andy Jassy, though. Andy Jassy opens up about the founding of AWS, growth, culture, holding standards, and what he does in the week between Christmas and New Year’s every year.īeing the CEO of a multi-billion dollar company will put plenty of pressure on you, but when that company is Amazon Web Services (AWS) – a subsidiary of tech giant Amazon with more than one million customers, offering about 165 services, and operating in approximately 190 countries – the pressure is really on. ![]()
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