Amazon names AWS chief Prasad Kalyanaraman to S team, promotes Dave Brown to SVP
Amazon added a new member to its executive leadership team on Wednesday, naming AWS infrastructure chief Prasad Kalyanaraman to a group known as the S-team or “smoke,” and promoting cloud computing and AI services leader Dave Brown to executive vice president.
CEO Andy Jassy announced the changes internally, according to a memo seen by GeekWire, and the company updated its public list of S-team members to reflect the changes.
Kalyanaraman oversees AWS infrastructure, including data centers, networks, and supply chain. He has been with the company for over 20 years, starting in Amazon 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 his missionary approach (always focused on what’s best for the customer – and the company as a whole versus just his location),” referring in part to Amazon’s leadership principles.
Brown leads AWS compute services (EC2) and the fastest growing AI services including Bedrock and SageMaker. He has been with the S group since 2023, previously as vice president.
“There are several reasons for his promotion, but the main ones are his good presentation, tendency to look around corners and deliver services that customers want, being very honest, being very customer focused, and continuing to develop strong teams,” wrote Jassy.
The addition of Kalyanaraman brings the S team back to 28 members. That’s still down from more than 30 when the last big cycle was done in September 2023.
Currently, the group has seen departures including Adam Selipsky as CEO of AWS (replaced by Matt Garman); Longtime device executive Dave Limp, (followed by former Microsoft executive Panos Panay); artificial intelligence leader Rohit Prasad; head of grocery Tony Hoggett; and device software lead Rob Williams.
Here is the full list as it stands now.
- Aicha Evans, CEO, Zoox
- Amit Agarwal, SVP, Emerging Markets and Retail 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 and Chief Legal Officer
- Doug Herrington, CEO, Amazon Stores Worldwide
- 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 and 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, Agent AI
- Udit Madan, SVP, Worldwide Operations
