Technology Magazine September 2024 | Page 32

LIFETIME OF ACHIEVEMENT IN TECHNOLOGY
This timing positioned him at the forefront of the tech giant ’ s growth from an online bookselling to a global e-commerce and technology organisation .
Andy first worked as a marketing manager for Amazon until he and Jeff Bezos came up with an idea in 2003 to create a cloud computing platform within the company ’ s offerings . This idea became AWS and was first launched in 2006 . At the time , Andy headed up AWS with a team of just 57 people .
AWS represented the moment Amazon started to recognise the true potential of its technology offerings . What set this service apart is that technology teams

“ Generative AI may be the largest technology transformation since the cloud ... and perhaps since the Internet ”

32 September 2024