Amazon names Adam Selipsky the incoming CEO of its $40 billion cloud business
- Amazon named Adam Selipsky, the current CEO of Tableau Software, its incoming cloud CEO.
- Andy Jassy, Amazon Web Services' CEO, will replace Jeff Bezos as Amazon CEO later this year.
- Selipsky previously spent 11 years at Amazon and will take over AWS in the third quarter.
Amazon named Adam Selipsky, a former executive and the CEO of Tableau Software, the incoming head of its cloud business.
The current Amazon Web Services CEO, Andy Jassy, will replace Jeff Bezos as Amazon CEO later this year. Selipsky left Amazon in 2016 after 11 years to become CEO of Tableau, which is now owned by Salesforce.
Jassy announced Selipsky's hiring in an email to employees on Tuesday. Selipsky will return to Amazon on May 17 and begin the transition before Jassy officially takes over as Amazon CEO in the third quarter of the year.
AWS generates over $40 billion in annual revenue and is the de facto leader in cloud computing, with over 30% of market share.
Selipsky had long been rumored to be a candidate to replace Jassy as AWS CEO. "He and Andy are tight," one AWS insider told Insider last month.
In naming Selipsky, Amazon passed over several internal candidates, including infrastructure boss Peter DeSantis, sales and marketing chief Matt Garman, and head of utility-computing services Charlie Bell.
Salesforce also announced Tuesday that Tableau executive Mark Nelson would repalce Selipsky as CEO of the data-vizualization company. "Mark has been on the Tableau leadership team for three years and he has deep relationships with our customers and employees," the firm said in a statement.
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