Day Two Cloud 086: AWS Succession – Does It Matter Who’s The Next CEO?

AWS needs a new CEO now that Andy Jassy has been tapped to run the Amazon mothership. Does the cloud giant need a high-powered, Type-A successor to drive AWS’s growth, or is it now so dominant that a ham sandwich could run the company? That’s the topic for discussion on today’s Day Two Cloud podcast. Co-host Ned Bellavance moderates an intramural debate between two Packet Pushers: Ethan Banks and Drew Conry-Murray. Ethan takes the position that AWS faces intense pressure and its domination is not at all assured, which means the succession matters a great deal. Drew argues for the ham sandwich. Let the conversation (polite disagreement? verbal knife fight?) commence. Sponsor: Onix As an award-winning cloud solutions provider, Onix provides consulting services for cloud infrastructure, collaboration, devices, enterprise search and geospatial technology. For a limited time, Onix is offering your organization a FREE 6 Hour Cloud Data Strategy Workshop (normally valued at over $2,000). For more information on this special offer, visit onixnet.com/packetpushers. Tech Bytes: ThousandEyes Stay tuned for a Tech Bytes conversation with sponsor ThousandEyes on VPN monitoring for remote workforces. Our guest is Alex Cruz Farmer, Principal Product Manager at ThousandEyes. To learn more about the solution, check out the on-demand webinar “VPN Monitoring for a Remote Workforce” or sign up for a free trial at thousandeyes.com. Show Links: ‘A managerial Mephistopheles’: inside the mind of Jeff Bezos – The Guardian The South African origins of Andy Jassy’s profitable Amazon division – Quartz Africa Battle For Cloud Dominance – Who Comes After Jassy At AWS? – Forbes What Andy Jassy’s promotion to Amazon CEO could mean for AWS – TechCrunch 5 Things To Know About Andy Jassy’s Transition To Amazon CEO – CRN Show Transcript: [00:00:01.030] – Ethan [AD] Day Two Cloud sponsor Onix is a premier Google cloud partner and an AWS advanced consulting partner they’re also an 11 time Google Cloud Award winner and was recently recognized as tech titans number one for best cloud consulting services in 2020. For a limited time. Onix is offering a free six hour cloud data strategy workshop. That’s kind of a big deal. That’s normally a two thousand dollar service. For more information and to find out more about the six hour Cloud Data Strategy Workshop, visit Onixnet.com/PacketPushers. [/AD] [00:00:40.380] – Ned Welcome to Day Two Cloud, the topic for today’s episode is going to be, hey, AWS just lost their CEO. What’s going to happen there? I mean,