Longtime Amazon Web Services Executive Dave Brown to Depart After Nearly 19 Years

According to CNBC, a longtime executive in Amazon's cloud unit is leaving the tech giant after nearly 19 years. Dave Brown, a senior vice president in Amazon Web Services (AWS), plans to depart at the end of this month for a new role outside of the company, AWS CEO Matt Garman wrote in a note to staffers. Brown will be replaced by Dave Treadwell, a top executive in Amazon's e-commerce division. Brown joined AWS in its infancy and was a member of the early team that assembled its core EC2 service in South Africa in the 2000s. More recently, his responsibilities expanded to include AWS' compute and machine learning services, such as its Bedrock and SageMaker offerings. He is also part of Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's S-team. In a separate memo, Brown said it felt like the right time for him to begin a new chapter. Brown's departure comes as AWS has benefited from strong demand for artificial intelligence services, helping the unit record 28% revenue growth in the first quarter.