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Amazon's incoming CEO Andy Jassy ushered in cloud computing boom

Jassy has led AWS since before the launch of its first major services in 2006

Andy Jassy, CEO Amazon Web Services, speaks at the WSJD Live conference in Laguna Beach, California, US
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Andy Jassy, CEO Amazon Web Services, speaks at the WSJD Live conference in Laguna Beach, California, US

Matt Day | Bloomberg
Incoming Amazon.com Inc CEO Andy Jassy cuts a low profile outside of the wonky world of cloud computing. But for much of the last decade he’s been arguably the most important person in the tech industry.

The unit he leads, Amazon Web Services, has reshaped how companies buy technology, by simplifying computing services into their component pieces and offering them essentially for rent over the internet. The business was initially dismissed by enterprise software giants like Oracle Inc. before that company and others quickly sought to emulate elements of AWS’s strategy.

In the same earnings report in which Amazon said Jassy, 53,

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