What Is Amazon Web Services? - The New York Times

In the popular imagination, Amazon is a big huge store run by Jeff Bezos, a smiling man with a clean-shaven head who is, sometimes, the richest person in the world. You order and Amazon delivers. Because it’s a big huge store that wants to be bigger and huger, you can also stream TV shows and buy Amazon-branded personal gadgets and Amazon-branded home-security devices. You can order groceries there too. This is a version of the story Amazon has been telling about itself, to customers, since the very beginning, and one that has made it enormously successful. But behind Amazon’s success is also a guy named Andy Jassy, whom most of the company’s customers had never heard of before Wednesday, when Mr. Bezos announced that he would succeed him as C.E.O. In a letter to employees, Mr. Bezos expressed his “full confidence” in his successor, leaving unsaid what Mr. Jassy has been up to for the last decade, because employees surely knew. He’s credited with creating and growing Amazon Web Service

In the popular imagination, Amazon is a big huge store run by Jeff Bezos, a smiling man with a clean-shaven head who is, sometimes, the richest person in the world. You order and Amazon delivers. Because it’s a big huge store that wants to be bigger and huger, you can also stream TV shows and buy Amazon-branded personal gadgets and Amazon-branded home-security devices. You can order groceries there too. This is a version of the story Amazon has been telling about itself, to customers, since the very beginning, and one that has made it enormously successful. But behind Amazon’s success is also