
While Jassy may not be as well-known as Bezos, he is extremely well-respected within the cloud computing community. In cornering the market before the likes of Oracle, Google and Microsoft had awoken to the huge opportunities available, AWS has shown impressive fleet-footedness that has, effectively, now bestowed upon it an insurmountable edge that its competitors are unlikely to overturn any time soon.
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Since its launch, AWS has worked tirelessly to expand its product portfolio beyond core computing solutions and now offers additional services like database management, content delivery, machine learning software and analytics tools. Jassy's technical know-how has also helped AWS win contracts with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Democratic National Committee.


Without abandoning its strategy to cater to small businesses, it has expanded its reach, inking lucrative contracts with some of the most prominent global companies including Lyft, Pinterest, Apple and Slack among several others.
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But through a process of trial and error, AWS grew remarkably over the next fifteen years and now, according to data from Synergy Research, accounts for 33 per cent of the global cloud infrastructure services market. When AWS began deploying its services in 2006, its primary focus was small enterprises and startups. Of the opportunity, Jassy, in a September 2019 podcast, said, “I didn't know what my job was going to be, or what my title was going to be.”īut taking that leap seems to have paid huge dividends for Jassy who would, ultimately, go on to launch Amazon Web Services, the organisation's cloud hosting arm that, in recent years, has become a cornerstone of Amazon's grander business. After graduating from Harvard Business School, Jassy immediately jumped at the chance to join Amazon, then just a fledgling outfit. The 52-year old Jassy has been with the company since 1997 and currently heads Amazon Web Services, one of the key divisions in the company. He will, reportedly, turn his focus to other projects like his space exploration outfit, Blue Origin, The Washington Post and Amazon Day 1 Fund, while retaining the role of executive chairman on Amazon's board. The tech and e-commerce giant announced that Bezos would be stepping down from the top post in February this year, having served at the company's helm for the last three decades.
