Andy Jassy Quotes

Andy Jassy is an American businessman and the former CEO of Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing division of Amazon. Under Jassy's leadership, AWS grew to become a leading provider of cloud services, offering a wide range of products and solutions to businesses and individuals. He is known for his strategic vision and contributions to the field of cloud computing.

In the case of games, we have a belief that that could end up being the largest category in entertainment over a long period of time. Just look at what's happening in games and how social they've become.

Being successful right away is obviously less stressful, but when it takes longer, it's often sweeter.

We have a lot of people in Seattle, but we also have a lot of people in Bellevue and it is where most of our growth will end up being.

You can imagine all the things that people want in machine learning and artificial intelligence area that we're working on, that we'll continue to work on in the future.

We had a really animated debate about whether we should allow third-party sellers to sell on the Amazon site.

A lot of times in intense moments, you tend to play conservatively because you're just trying to avoid losing, as opposed to trying to win.

We don't think at all about how the AWS business complements the Amazon business from a financial overview perspective.

If you're going to invest in something over a long period of time, that you believe is important and can change the company, you have to be strategically patient and tactically impatient.

We started to consider what became Amazon Web Serv... -Andy Jassy

We started to consider what became Amazon Web Services between 2000 and 2003.

People ask us a lot about the notion of spinning AWS off. We have no plans to do so. I will never say never, but there's no compelling reason. Amazon has been so generous and gracious in aggressively funding AWS that there's no reason to do it.

The vast majority of companies will not own their own data centers in the fullness of time. All that computing is moving to the cloud. This space is going to be a high-volume, relatively low-margin business.

I think a lot of societal good is already being do... -Andy Jassy

I think a lot of societal good is already being done with facial recognition technology.

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There is insatiable demand for AWS cloud services.... -Andy Jassy

There is insatiable demand for AWS cloud services.

It's like a kid opening gifts on Christmas. The people who come to re:Invent are really excited about what the cloud is letting them do.

I think at the end of the day with any technology, whether you're talking about facial recognition technology or anything else, the people that use the technology have to be responsible for it, and if they use it irresponsibly, they have to be held accountable.

Well, I think that the pandemic, I mean what a crazy period. I don't think any of us have lived through anything like that before and I hope we never live through anything like that after.

There is no compression algorithm for experience.... -Andy Jassy

There is no compression algorithm for experience.

My suspicion is that a lot of these office buildings will start to evolve from being optimized for individual offices or cube space to being hot offices where you decide which day you're going to come in and then you reserve a desk.

You have to know what your customers think about your product and where you sit, relatively speaking. You have to know what's working and what's not working.

I think if you have a large group of people like we do - we have 1.2 million employees - it's almost like a small country.

If you know anything about what a lot of the senior leaders at Amazon do in their free time, they spend a lot of time on civil liberties. It's something that's very important to me and I think a lot of my peers.

In the past we've tried to hire people in locations where we have critical mass, because we thought it was better for people's career development and easier for them to collaborate. We realized if you have somebody in a particular location who is willing to work the hours to be able to collaborate, you can do it very efficiently.

I think that there are a number of older-guard technology companies who either genuinely believe or are hoping people will believe that companies aren't going to move to the cloud that quickly or that a very large amount of workloads will remain on-premises forever. I don't believe that.

During the pandemic in our fulfillment centers, we had a system and a process around people being able to request short and long term leave and the process just didn't scale.

If you're flying everyone Business and First Class to meet customers, it's a pretty substantial expense, and none of that benefits customers.

Some businesses take off in the first year, and ot... -Andy Jassy

Some businesses take off in the first year, and others take many years.

At Amazon, with new initiatives, we don't look at something and say, 'Okay, it needs to hit this certain metric.' Because it's impossible to know whether somebody's going to respond to something really new and innovative.

If you believe developers will build applications from scratch using web services as primitive building blocks, then the operating system becomes the Internet.

We'd realized in the first ten years we'd built an infrastructure competence deep in the stack - reliable, scalable cost effective data centers to grow the Amazon retail biz the way we needed to. But we'd built Amazon so quickly that a number of the pieces of the platform had become entangled.

I took my last final exam at HBS, the first Friday of May in 1997, and I started Amazon next Monday. No, I didn't know what my job was going to be, or what my title was going to be.

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