Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to step down this summer, AWS boss Andy Jassy to step up Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder and chief executive, will step down from his CEO role this summer, handing the job to the head of its AWS cloud computing division, Andy Jassy. The announcement was timed to coincide with Amazon's full-year financial results today, and Bezos was quoted as saying: "Right now I see Amazon at its most …
Well, the new boss doesn't seem to resemble Dr Evil quite as much, at least.
Amazon are an awkward company: they're very clever and innovative on a technical level, their customer service is (generally) good, but that they treat (especially) warehouse staff like dirt really is not on for a company in this day and age. Let's hope this change of leadership also results in a positive change in behaviour in that regard.
What I find ironic about Amazon is that, now it is a seriously rich company, it can actually afford to pay its people decent wages and otherwise treat them them like human beings.
It is a mystery to me why it does not do this. I do not get the impression that its bottom line would suffer.
And reading the article about Jassy, I do not get the impression that pay and conditions at amazon will improve.
Mr Burns, your campaign seems to have the momentum of a runaway train......
Can someone hear a sucking sound?
Are you hosted on AWS and frightened they might do a parler on you?
El Reg, licking the hand that feeds IT.
While I could spend all day slating Amazon, and you're absolutely free to dismiss their successes, I think you're being a bit unfair here on El Reg.
I see, so any positivity is sucking and slurping out of fear of reprisal...
How about this: it's a difference of opinion rather than an indication of corruption?
> El Reg, licking the hand that feeds IT.
Sounds like you've got a distinctly negative bias against Amazon.
Which, y'know, is fine.
But it's incredibly stupid to fail to acknowledge that - as with Google, Microsoft, Apple and other industrial giants - that they've gotten to where they are at least partly because they've been able to innovate and do things better than their rivals.
(Admittedly, Microsoft were more "right time, right place". And all of them have used anti-competitive measures to at least some degree. But they've all also been responsible for a fair amount of innovation in their time).
Underestimating your enemy - or dismissing anyone who points out their strengths - is a surefire way to lose both the battle and the interest of anyone reading your posts...
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Large companies always have plusses and minuses but the one thing in the IT world that can never be taken away from them is that they single-handedly took cloud computing from nothing to ubiquitous. Not Microsoft, not IBM, but a bookseller.
That, of course, is just as much of an indictment of IBM and Microsoft as it is praise of Amazon but sometimes it takes an outsider's eye to realise that "bureau services" were due for a re-vamp.
Yes, which is somewhat surprising. Who'd have thought the entire IT world could be disrupted by a bookshop.
Can you imagine what would happen if the reverse had occurred?
IBM: we're going to start selling stuff from a website
Shareholders: what sort of stuff? you already sell stuff.
IBM: We'll start with books but you know,anything really. We are going to sell anything and everything and we're going to use our ecommerce skills to do it.
Shareholders: *screams about core business* *mass panic* *dumps shares*
> Yes, which is somewhat surprising. Who'd have thought the entire IT world could be disrupted by a bookshop.
Is it really that surprising? Britain's first commercial mainframe computer was produced by Lyons... who were a tad more famous at the time for their cafes, biscuits and tearooms!
In both cases (and to vastly simplify), they needed the IT infrastructure to support their business logistics, and then span out said infrastructure into a commercial venture.
After all, they both had an advantage over their rivals, in that their systems had already been battle-tested with their own internal processes...
That was an "attaboy" to the staff (and shareholders, to an extent), not a request for a global sainthood.
I'm sure they would rather have a decent share of his bank balance but at least it shows he does value their contribution to making him a rich man...sorry, to making Amazon such a success.
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