I was curious, so the context is that current Amazon CEO Andy Jassy was the head of AWS and he hired an outside executive, Adam Selipsky, as his replacement when he was promoted. Adam worked at Amazon a long time ago, but left to found Tableau and then sold it to Salesforce.
By contrast, the incoming CEO of AWS is a longtime AWS veteran. But he's head of sales? Should be interesting
AWS has always been a place of change. Adam has been a good leader, and Iām excited to see how AWS traverses the future. I never would have thought that the AI landscape would have such a dramatic effect on the cloud. Clay Christensen insight in innovation curves still rules to this day.
For the 99% of use cases, you don't actually need AWS. I would stick to open source software/services, efficient code and algorithms in the fastest languages, cheaper smaller clouds, AI APIs, and even an in-house cluster for GPUs when needed. Keep iterating. If you're still running say Java with its enormous memory requirements, you are however stuck with the big clouds.
official post: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/leadership-upd...
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40355255