Dave Brown, a senior vice president in Amazon Web Services<\/a>, plans to depart at the end of this month for “a new role outside of the company,” AWS CEO Matt Garman<\/a> wrote in a note to staffers. Brown will be replaced by Dave Treadwell, a top executive in Amazon’s e-commerce division, Garman said. <\/p>\n “Dave has been a big part of what we have built at AWS, and I want to personally thank him for all of his contributions in helping grow and develop the technology, the business and the team,” Garman wrote.<\/p>\n 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, according to his LinkedIn profile<\/a>. EC2, one of AWS’ oldest services, provides virtual slices of physical servers for rent, billed by the second, that companies use to run applications and websites.<\/p>\n More recently, Brown’s responsibilities expanded to include AWS’ compute and machine learning services, such as its Bedrock and SageMaker offerings. He’s also part of Amazon CEO Andy Jassy<\/a>‘s vaunted S-team<\/a>, a highly influential group of 28 executives that report to Jassy and meet with him regularly to make key business decisions. <\/p>\n In a separate memo, Brown said it felt “like the right time for me to begin a new chapter” and added that his organization is “in outstanding hands” under Treadwell. <\/p>\n “He’s an exceptional leader with deep technical expertise, relentless customer focus, and a genuine passion for building strong teams,” Brown wrote. <\/p>\n Brown’s departure comes as AWS has benefited from strong demand for artificial intelligence<\/a> services, helping the unit record 28% revenue growth<\/a> in the first quarter. Cloud rivals Microsoft<\/a> and Google<\/a> have also been riding a surge in AI-related spending. <\/p>\n \u2014 CNBC’s Jordan Novet contributed reporting to this article.<\/p>\n
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