New Amazon CEO: From Life in the Cloud to Running One of the World’s Biggest Firms

New Amazon CEO: From Life in the Cloud to Running One of the World’s Biggest Firms
Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, speaks at the WSJD Live conference in Laguna Beach, Calif., on Oct. 25, 2016. Mike Blake/Reuters
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Amazon’s new chief executive, Andy Jassy, who joined the company in 1997 and has overseen its fast-growing cloud computing business, says the key to long-term success is reinvention.

“You want to be reinventing when you are healthy, you want to be reinventing all the time,” Jassy, 53, said in December at a company forum. “You have got to be manancial and relentless and tenacious about getting to the truth... You have to know what’s working and what’s not working.”