GeekWire May 31, 2024
Three years after returning to Amazon Web Services to lead the cloud giant through one of the most challenging and prosperous periods in its history, Adam Selipsky fielded questions this week about his tenure as AWS CEO, the state of competition in the cloud, and what’s next for himself and the company.
In an interview with GeekWire at Amazon’s re:Invent building in Seattle, in his final days as the tech giant’s top cloud executive, Selipsky took issue with the popular narrative that AWS under his leadership was caught off-guard by the rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence.
“I think that story has much more sizzle and will likely generate more clicks than looking back at what actually happened in the...