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Andy Jassy and Amazon: The AWS Founder Who Inherited Bezos' Empire and Bet Everything on AI Infrastructure

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On July 5, 2021—exactly 27 years after Amazon.com was incorporated—Jeff Bezos handed the keys to one of the world's most valuable companies to a man who had been at his side since the company employed just 256 people. Andrew R. Jassy, known as Andy to everyone in tech, had spent 24 years building Amazon Web Services from a controversial idea into a $45 billion business that became the company's profit engine and the foundation of the modern internet. Now, as Amazon's third CEO (after Bezos and a brief interim), Jassy faces perhaps the biggest technological transformation in the company's history—and he's betting over $100 billion that Amazon can own the infrastructure layer of the AI revolution the same way it owned the cloud computing revolution. This is the untold story of how a Harvard MBA who joined a 256-person e-commerce startup became the architect of cloud computing, served as Bezos' brain double during AWS's formative years, inherited leadership of a $1.7 trillion company, and

The AWS Founder Who Became Bezos' Heir On July 5, 2021—exactly 27 years after Amazon.com was incorporated—Jeff Bezos handed the keys to one of the world's most valuable companies to a man who had been at his side since the company employed just 256 people. Andrew R. Jassy, known as Andy to everyone in tech, had spent 24 years building Amazon Web Services from a controversial idea into a $45 billion business that became the company's profit engine and the foundation of the modern internet. Now, as Amazon's third CEO (after Bezos and a brief interim), Jassy faces perhaps the biggest technologica

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