Sharing a note I sent to all AWS employees today:
Team,
Over the past 18 years, I've had the privilege of working alongside the most talented, innovative, and customer-obsessed people on the planet. The journey has been nothing short of amazing, and today, I'm incredibly excited to mark Day 1 as CEO of AWS.
From the very beginning, we’ve been driven by a commitment to deliver innovative products and services that solve real problems for our customers, and to anticipate ones they haven’t encountered yet. I love how this customer obsession allows us to tackle what sometimes seems impossible—and that relentless focus is still at our core today. We remain intent on providing secure, high-performing, sustainable, and operationally excellent cloud infrastructure and services that customers and partners can trust with their most precious data and workloads.
The advances we're seeing in generative AI present one of the most exciting technological opportunities of our lifetimes, and thanks to all of you, we are helping tens of thousands of customers across every industry move quickly with this technology and change the way they work. As we continue expanding our array of building blocks to help customers take advantage of new technologies, we’re also continually growing our infrastructure around the world to help them securely run their mission-critical workloads.
AWS has always been a place where smart risk-taking, customer obsession, and a never-ending drive to innovate are embraced and celebrated. With that foundation, there’s massive opportunity ahead.
I’m looking forward to building this next chapter together.
Matt
Passionate about bringing value to businesses where technology is the enabler | CTO, CxO Advisory, Enterprise Strategy, Problem Solver, Cloud Advocate, Father and Husband
It’s great to see this post from Matt. Key two words in that post… “building blocks”, which means you’ll always need expert teams in assembling them into business value! Looking forward to seeing what comes next from AWS and Generation AI!!
Sharing a note I sent to all AWS employees today:
Team,
Over the past 18 years, I've had the privilege of working alongside the most talented, innovative, and customer-obsessed people on the planet. The journey has been nothing short of amazing, and today, I'm incredibly excited to mark Day 1 as CEO of AWS.
From the very beginning, we’ve been driven by a commitment to deliver innovative products and services that solve real problems for our customers, and to anticipate ones they haven’t encountered yet. I love how this customer obsession allows us to tackle what sometimes seems impossible—and that relentless focus is still at our core today. We remain intent on providing secure, high-performing, sustainable, and operationally excellent cloud infrastructure and services that customers and partners can trust with their most precious data and workloads.
The advances we're seeing in generative AI present one of the most exciting technological opportunities of our lifetimes, and thanks to all of you, we are helping tens of thousands of customers across every industry move quickly with this technology and change the way they work. As we continue expanding our array of building blocks to help customers take advantage of new technologies, we’re also continually growing our infrastructure around the world to help them securely run their mission-critical workloads.
AWS has always been a place where smart risk-taking, customer obsession, and a never-ending drive to innovate are embraced and celebrated. With that foundation, there’s massive opportunity ahead.
I’m looking forward to building this next chapter together.
Matt
It has been an exciting couple of weeks for Amazon Web Services (AWS) as they transition to their third CEO, with Matt Garman taking the reins. This is a great move, building on the challenging work that Adam Selipsky did during the pandemic to right-size some of the organizations and focus on margins and the core.
In fact, the service margin story will probably become a Harvard case study, bringing back the money that supports not only AWS innovation but also Amazon stock.
Matt has some work to do, and he is well suited. Solving some #GTM motions, especially with partners, reigniting the innovation engine and the focus on the peculiar culture.
As Matt said below and sent to customers, getting AWS back to a "place where smart risk-taking, customer obsession, and a never-ending drive to innovate are embraced and celebrated."
Also, like the comment John Furrier said, "AWS has always been about taking care of the heavy lifting and standing up infrastructure easily. Now it's time for that "born in the cloud" experience for the AI revolution. Specifically for this next generation of developers building AI companies and apps."
Sharing a note I sent to all AWS employees today:
Team,
Over the past 18 years, I've had the privilege of working alongside the most talented, innovative, and customer-obsessed people on the planet. The journey has been nothing short of amazing, and today, I'm incredibly excited to mark Day 1 as CEO of AWS.
From the very beginning, we’ve been driven by a commitment to deliver innovative products and services that solve real problems for our customers, and to anticipate ones they haven’t encountered yet. I love how this customer obsession allows us to tackle what sometimes seems impossible—and that relentless focus is still at our core today. We remain intent on providing secure, high-performing, sustainable, and operationally excellent cloud infrastructure and services that customers and partners can trust with their most precious data and workloads.
The advances we're seeing in generative AI present one of the most exciting technological opportunities of our lifetimes, and thanks to all of you, we are helping tens of thousands of customers across every industry move quickly with this technology and change the way they work. As we continue expanding our array of building blocks to help customers take advantage of new technologies, we’re also continually growing our infrastructure around the world to help them securely run their mission-critical workloads.
AWS has always been a place where smart risk-taking, customer obsession, and a never-ending drive to innovate are embraced and celebrated. With that foundation, there’s massive opportunity ahead.
I’m looking forward to building this next chapter together.
Matt
A landmark day at AWS, as Matt Garman begins as CEO. His note to AWS employees: 1- customer obsession remains #1, 2- generative AI has enormous promise, and 3-innovate and take risk! Excited to see what this next chapter brings. 👇
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Sharing a note I sent to all AWS employees today:
Team,
Over the past 18 years, I've had the privilege of working alongside the most talented, innovative, and customer-obsessed people on the planet. The journey has been nothing short of amazing, and today, I'm incredibly excited to mark Day 1 as CEO of AWS.
From the very beginning, we’ve been driven by a commitment to deliver innovative products and services that solve real problems for our customers, and to anticipate ones they haven’t encountered yet. I love how this customer obsession allows us to tackle what sometimes seems impossible—and that relentless focus is still at our core today. We remain intent on providing secure, high-performing, sustainable, and operationally excellent cloud infrastructure and services that customers and partners can trust with their most precious data and workloads.
The advances we're seeing in generative AI present one of the most exciting technological opportunities of our lifetimes, and thanks to all of you, we are helping tens of thousands of customers across every industry move quickly with this technology and change the way they work. As we continue expanding our array of building blocks to help customers take advantage of new technologies, we’re also continually growing our infrastructure around the world to help them securely run their mission-critical workloads.
AWS has always been a place where smart risk-taking, customer obsession, and a never-ending drive to innovate are embraced and celebrated. With that foundation, there’s massive opportunity ahead.
I’m looking forward to building this next chapter together.
Matt
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Breaking news: Adam Selipsky CEO of AWS is stepping down and SVP of AWS sales Matt Garman will replace him. What's coming next for AWS?
Sales are increasing due to the demand for AI services and Matt is well positioned to help drive increasing growth for the company.
Are you ready to take advantage of the next wave of cloud growth?
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Former CEO at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Former President and CEO at Tableau.
After almost 15 combined years at AWS, I am going to be moving on. It has been a true privilege to help lead this business from pre-revenue to $100B annualized revenue. I’m humbled by the many customers who have said they wouldn’t be what they are without AWS, thankful to our many partners, and grateful to my passionate and innovative teammates. AWS will be in great hands with Matt and the incredible leadership team. I’m looking forward to taking some time off with family, while taking the opportunity to think about my next adventure!
Latest update: AWS CEO Adam Selipsky is resigning, with Matt Garman, SVP of AWS sales, set to take over. What lies ahead for AWS?
With the surge in demand for AI services, sales are on the rise, and Matt is primed to spearhead further growth for the company.
Are you prepared to harness the upcoming cloud boom? If you require assistance in enhancing your cloud proficiency, feel free to reach out—I'm here to assist!
Former CEO at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Former President and CEO at Tableau.
After almost 15 combined years at AWS, I am going to be moving on. It has been a true privilege to help lead this business from pre-revenue to $100B annualized revenue. I’m humbled by the many customers who have said they wouldn’t be what they are without AWS, thankful to our many partners, and grateful to my passionate and innovative teammates. AWS will be in great hands with Matt and the incredible leadership team. I’m looking forward to taking some time off with family, while taking the opportunity to think about my next adventure!
This one initially caught me by surprise as it seemed he was just getting started. But as it turned out, Selipsky viewed his role as strictly transitional, for preparing the next generation of AWS leaders. Nonetheless, the lens to view this is that, while the carbon-sucking demands of #genAI threaten to upend the industry, AWS business is showing early signs of plateauing. It's no longer the days of (to paraphrase) you don't get fired for buying AWS. We don't think this means "Day 2" in Amazon parlance, but as we recently noted, AWS needs to realize it is a new day. It's graduated the hypergrowth startup phase and now it needs to overcome its product silos. AWS's huge all you can eat menu of cloud services has to get rationalized, bundled, and simplified if it's going to grab a bigger chunk of IT. Because, despite the hype, at most organizations computing is still majority on-premises, and getting that last mile is always going to be the hardest. That will be Matt Garman's challenge.
Former CEO at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Former President and CEO at Tableau.
After almost 15 combined years at AWS, I am going to be moving on. It has been a true privilege to help lead this business from pre-revenue to $100B annualized revenue. I’m humbled by the many customers who have said they wouldn’t be what they are without AWS, thankful to our many partners, and grateful to my passionate and innovative teammates. AWS will be in great hands with Matt and the incredible leadership team. I’m looking forward to taking some time off with family, while taking the opportunity to think about my next adventure!
As the newly appointed CEO of AWS, Matt Garman steps into his role with a wealth of experience and a vision for the future. With his leadership, there's a sense of anticipation in the air, a feeling that change is on the horizon, bringing with it both challenges and opportunities.
One area where we might see shifts is in the focus on new markets. Matt's strategic mindset and growth focus could lead to prioritising expanding AWS's reach into untapped territories or emerging industry segments. This could mean increased marketing efforts, targeted product development initiatives, or even strategic acquisitions to bolster AWS's presence in key sectors. That approach can be balanced with his product quality excellence, which could translate into focusing on growing the current market through innovative and improved services.
Moreover, Matt's reputation for fostering collaboration and teamwork could herald a new era of synergy within AWS. Breaking down silos and encouraging cross-functional innovation could become the norm, driving us to new heights of creativity and efficiency. Matt has already announced that he will make some organisational adjustments. Will it be with this intention?
Efficiency, too, might become a hallmark of Matt's leadership. While AWS is already renowned for its operational excellence, Matt's keen eye for optimisation could further streamline internal processes and resource allocation, ensuring that AWS continuously operates at peak performance.
Under Matt's guidance, we may see an evolution in service offerings. With his finger on the pulse of emerging technologies, Garman could steer AWS towards new frontiers such as edge computing, quantum computing, or AI-powered solutions, ensuring that we remain at the forefront of innovation.
Also, let's remember the importance of clear communication. Matt's emphasis on transparency and openness could lead to a new era of customer engagement, with more transparent communication around product roadmaps and development plans fostering more robust relationships with valued customers and partners.
But among all these changes, some things will likely remain the same. AWS's unwavering commitment to customer centricity, for instance, is a cornerstone of AWS's success and is unlikely to waver under Garman's leadership. Similarly, dedication to continuous innovation and a long-term vision for sustainable growth are values that will endure, driving us forward into the future.
Of course, there are uncertainties, too. Matt has not yet revealed the specifics of his growth strategies, and we are yet to see the impact of his leadership style on existing teams within AWS. But one thing is sure: transitioning to Matt Garman brings excitement and possibilities.
For those who know AWS well, what are your thoughts about this change?
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Former CEO at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Former President and CEO at Tableau.
After almost 15 combined years at AWS, I am going to be moving on. It has been a true privilege to help lead this business from pre-revenue to $100B annualized revenue. I’m humbled by the many customers who have said they wouldn’t be what they are without AWS, thankful to our many partners, and grateful to my passionate and innovative teammates. AWS will be in great hands with Matt and the incredible leadership team. I’m looking forward to taking some time off with family, while taking the opportunity to think about my next adventure!
In t-5 minutes, I'm going live with Nathen Harvey, from the early founding team of DORA at Google Cloud.
Nathen and I met recently, and I was surprised to learn about how the leading indicators of developer efficiency (DORA metrics) were founded, along with his wealth of experiences working with multiple companies paving the way in engineering effectiveness and elite devops performance at Google.
Here are just a few tidbits of what we'll be covering in this action packed conversation:
➡ DORA's focus has evolved over the past decade.
➡ DORA's impact on software delivery and organizational performance.
➡ Balancing speed and stability as correlated outcomes.
➡ How organizations can effectively use DORA metrics not just for assessment/performance management, but as tools for transformation and continuous improvement.
➡ And why Nathen is spelled with an "e"
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