北美時間2月2日，亞馬遜創始人兼CEO傑夫·貝索斯宣佈將於今年第三季度辭去CEO一職，轉而擔任公司的董事會執行主席，公司CEO一職將由亞馬遜雲服務（AWS）執行長安迪·賈西擔任。
在給亞馬遜員工的內部信件中，貝索斯表示：“我有足夠的時間和精力專注於亞馬遜'Day One'基金、貝索斯地球基金、藍色起源、《華盛頓郵報》和我的其他愛好。”
“我從未有過如此充沛的精力，這與退休無關。”貝索斯寫道，“我認為這些組織可以產生巨大影響力，並對此堅信不疑。”
Amazon said on Tuesday that its CEO Jeff Bezos will transition to the role of executive chair in the third quarter, with Andy Jassy, who heads Amazon Web Services (AWS), becoming the company's top boss.
In a letter to Amazon employees, Bezos said he would "stay engaged in important Amazon initiatives" but would pivot towards philanthropic initiatives and other business ventures in space exploration and journalism.
"I've never had more energy, and this isn't about retiring," Bezos wrote. "I'm super passionate about the impact I think these organizations can have."
據資料顯示，貝索斯於1994年創立了亞馬遜，此後，該公司從一家線上書店轉變為一家巨型線上零售商。亞馬遜的網上零售網路遍佈世界。在貝索斯的帶領下，2020年1月亞馬遜市值超過1萬億美元，截至2月2日收盤，該公司市值已接近1.7萬億美元。
儘管全球經濟在2020年受到重創，但亞馬遜公佈的2020財年第四季度銷售額為1255億美元，同比增長44%；淨利潤為72億美元；同比增長121%。這也是亞馬遜首次公佈季度營收超過1000億美元。
現年53歲的賈西是貝索斯精英高管團隊“S團隊”的成員，自AWS成立以來，賈西一直是該公司的負責人，2016年，貝索斯將他提拔為AWS執行長。賈西花了15年的時間，將亞馬遜從一個電子商務巨頭轉變為一家高利潤的技術公司，建立並主導了雲基礎設施市場。
亞馬遜設立了兩個直接向貝索斯報告的執行長職位，另一個由最近退休的亞馬遜全球消費者業務執行長傑夫·威爾克擔任，安迪·賈西將於第三季度接替傑夫·貝索斯掌舵亞馬遜，成為該公司第二位執行長。
Bezos, 57, founded Amazon in his garage in 1994 and went on to grow it into a colossus that dominates online retail, with operations in streaming music and television, groceries, cloud computing, robotics, artificial intelligence, and more.
The news came after Amazon reported a blowout holiday quarter with profits more than doubling to $7.2 billion and revenue jumping by 44 percent to $125.6 billion as pandemic lockdowns have caused online sales to explode around the globe.
The announcement that Bezos will hand the keys of the world's largest online retailer to Jassy ends a long-running question about who would succeed the world's second-richest person at the company's helm.
Jassy, 53, joined Amazon in 1997 after Harvard Business School, founding AWS and growing it to a cloud platform used by millions, the company's website said.
He had been a clear contender for the top job since Amazon created two CEO roles reporting to Bezos, the other held by recently retired consumer CEO Jeff Wilke.
傳立媒體（Mindshare Worldwide）首席轉型官湯姆·約翰遜說，“賈西的晉升強調了Web服務對亞馬遜未來的重要性。”
賈西以精通技術細節而聞名，他經常抨擊甲骨文公司和其雲業務競爭對手微軟公司，而AWS的銷售額一直超過微軟。
在賈西的領導下，亞馬遜的雲業務已經簽約了Verizon媒體集團，麥當勞還有霍尼韋爾等主要客戶。該部門的季度收入持續以兩位數增長，鞏固了其市場領導者的地位。
Tom Johnson, chief transformation officer at Mindshare Worldwide, said Jassy's promotion underscored the importance of web services to Amazon's future.
Jassy is known for understanding technical details, and he has regularly taken jabs at legacy player Oracle Corp. and cloud rival Microsoft Corp., which AWS continues to exceed in sales.
Under Jassy's leadership, Amazon's cloud business has signed major customers including Verizon, McDonald's, and Honeywell. The division's quarterly revenue consistently rose by double digits, helping cement its position as the market leader.