Andy Jassy had been Jeff’s technical advisor for the previous 18 months and was ready for a new role. He could have taken virtually any job in the company, including a leadership role in any of its largest businesses. Fortunately for us, he decided to start and lead a new team that would build on our experiment. Andy and his team envisioned and created a much more robust set of products that would usher in the era of cloud computing and become the massive hit that AWS is today. While the explosive growth of AWS and its sophisticated suite of product offerings all came after I had moved on to
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