Microsoft Corp. hired a veteran in the cloud from Amazon.com Inc. and Allied CEO Andy Jassy, according to a company document, in a rare jump from a senior executive among the top rivals in the cloud computing industry.
Charlie Bell, who recently left Amazon Web Services, is now on the Microsoft MSFT list.
as corporate vice president, according to an internal employee record seen by The Wall Street Journal. Bell was senior vice president of Amazon Web Services, as the company’s cloud computing industry is well known, and for years worked with Jassy, then head of AWS, to build the cloud computing business. cloud.
Bell spent more than two decades at AWS and was widely considered an apparent heir to Jassy. When Jassy was appointed to replace Jeff Bezos as Amazon’s AMZN,
CEO, the company took to the streets for his replacement. In March, Amazon approved Adam Selipsky to become the next CEO of the cloud business.
Selipsky also had a history at AWS and had close ties to Jassy. He was one of the first vice presidents hired in 2005 to work in the cloud computing business; it remained there for about 11 years and developed marketing, sales, support, business development, partner alliances and international expansion. He left in 2016 to become CEO of the data analysis platform Tableau Software Inc., which was acquired by Salesforce.com Inc. CRM,
for more than $ 15 billion, before his return to Amazon.
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