Amazon added a new member to its senior leadership team Wednesday, naming AWS infrastructure chief Prasad Kalyanaraman to the group known as the S-team or “steam,” while also promoting cloud computing and AI services leader Dave Brown to senior vice president.
CEO Andy Jassy announced the changes internally, according to a memo viewed by GeekWire, and the company updated its public list of S-team members to reflect the changes.
Kalyanaraman oversees AWS infrastructure, including data centers, networking, and supply chain. He has been with the company for more than 20 years, starting in Amazon’s fulfillment and supply chain operations before moving to the cloud division in 2012.
Jassy’s memo praised his “customer obsession, high standards, ability to be right often, delivery, and missionary approach (always focusing on what’s best for customers — and the company as a whole vs. just his own area),” alluding in part to Amazon’s leadership principles.
Brown leads AWS compute services (EC2) along with fast-growing AI services including Bedrock and SageMaker. He has been on the S-team since 2023, previously as a vice president.
“There are several reasons for his promotion, but chief among them are his outstanding delivery, propensity to look around corners and deliver services customers want, being right a lot, obsessing about customers, and continuing to develop strong teams,” Jassy wrote.
The addition of Kalyanaraman brings the S-team back up to 28 members. That’s still down from more than 30 when the last big round of additions was made in September 2023.
In the meantime, the group has seen departures including Adam Selipsky as AWS CEO (replaced by Matt Garman); longtime devices chief Dave Limp, (succeeded by former Microsoft executive Panos Panay); artificial intelligence leader Rohit Prasad; grocery head Tony Hoggett; and device software leader Rob Williams.
Here’s the full list as it stands now.
- Aicha Evans, CEO, Zoox
- Amit Agarwal, SVP, Emerging Markets and Selling Partner Services
- Andy Jassy, President and CEO
- Beth Galetti, SVP, People eXperience and Technology
- Brian Olsavsky, SVP and CFO
- Candi Castleberry, VP, Amazon eXperience and Upskilling
- Christine Beauchamp, SVP, North America Stores
- Colleen Aubrey, SVP, AWS Applied AI Solutions
- Dave Treadwell, SVP, eCommerce Foundation
- David Brown, SVP, AWS Compute & ML Services
- David Zapolsky, Chief Global Affairs & Legal Officer
- Doug Herrington, CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
- Drew Herdener, SVP, Communications & Corporate Responsibility
- James Hamilton, SVP and Distinguished Engineer, Amazon
- John Felton, SVP, AWS CFO
- Matt Garman, CEO, Amazon Web Services
- Mike Hopkins, SVP, Amazon Video and Studios
- Neil Lindsay, SVP, Amazon Health Services
- Panos Panay, SVP, Devices & Services
- Paul Kotas, SVP, Advertising, IMDb, and Grand Challenge
- Peter DeSantis, SVP, Foundational AI Models, Custom Silicon, Quantum Computing
- Peter Krawiec, SVP, Worldwide Corporate and Business Development
- Prasad Kalyanaraman, VP, AWS Infrastructure Services
- Russell Grandinetti, SVP, International Stores
- Steve Boom, VP, Audio, Twitch, and Games
- Steve Schmidt, Chief Security Officer
- Swami Sivasubramanian, VP, Agentic AI
- Udit Madan, SVP, Worldwide Operations
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