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AWS' Andy Jassy, Jeff Bezos' successor, is most important person in tech

Economic Times | 03/02/2021 09:22 AM | Click to read full article

Andy Jassy, who will replace Jeff Bezos as Amazon CEO later this year, 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 company reported that AWS pulled in $12.7 billion in sales in the fourth quarter, making the unit a $50 billion business on an annual basis.

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