Andy Jassy
Andy Jassy is Amazon's President & CEO, the man who built AWS into the world's dominant cloud and now has his hands on one of the biggest AI infrastructure bets in corporate history.
Andy Jassy has been President and CEO of Amazon since July 2021, when he succeeded founder Jeff Bezos. Before that, he was the founder and CEO of Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud division he built from scratch into the single most profitable engine inside Amazon, and the global leader in cloud computing.
Born on January 13, 1968, in Scarsdale, New York, Jassy earned both his undergraduate degree and his MBA from Harvard. He joined Amazon in 1997, just three years after it launched, and has spent his entire corporate career inside the company, a rare lifer who rose to the very top.
As CEO, Jassy’s signature moves have been a relentless focus on operational efficiency (including the significant layoffs of 2022–2023), and a massive long-term bet on AI infrastructure. In 2026, Amazon is reportedly committing roughly $200 billion in capital expenditure, a staggering figure aimed at keeping AWS, which grew ~28% year-over-year in Q1 2026, at the forefront of the AI era.
Amazon as a corporation faces ongoing antitrust scrutiny from regulators in the US and abroad, a reality that shapes much of Jassy’s strategic and public posture. On a personal level, he keeps a notably low profile compared to many of his Big Tech CEO peers.