- Chief Executive Officer, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Web Services (Amazon)123
Matt Garman has been CEO of Amazon Web Services since June 2024 and is a member of Amazon's senior leadership team, the S-team. Garman joined Amazon as an MBA intern in 2005, became one of the first AWS product managers in 2006, and helped launch the initial set of AWS services. Amazon's 2024 leadership announcement describes Garman as the first product manager for EC2, as the leader of the team that defined, launched and operated Amazon EBS, and as general manager of all AWS Compute services from 2016. From 2020, Garman led AWS worldwide sales, marketing, support and professional services before taking the CEO role.1234
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- Chief Executive Officer, Amazon Web Services
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- Amazon
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Career
Matt Garman first came to Amazon as an MBA intern in the summer of 2005 and joined full time in 2006 as one of the first AWS product managers. Working across AWS in those early years, Garman helped create the first service level agreements, define new features and set up new pricing plans.4
Garman became the first product manager for Amazon EC2, led EC2 product management in its early years, and led the team that defined, launched and operated Amazon EBS. Garman became general manager of all AWS Compute services in 2016, and Amazon's author biography notes responsibility for product management, engineering and operations across AWS compute and storage services.42
In 2020 Garman took on leadership of AWS worldwide sales, marketing, support and professional services, serving as Senior Vice President of AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services. Amazon announced in May 2024 that Garman would become CEO of AWS effective June 3, and Amazon lists Garman as a member of its S-team.413
Products and projects
As AWS CEO, Garman gave the main keynote at re:Invent 2024 on December 3, 2024. Amazon's event coverage says the keynote introduced Trainium2-powered EC2 instances and Trn2 UltraServers, the Trainium3 chip, Amazon Nova foundation models, new Amazon Bedrock capabilities and the next generation of Amazon SageMaker.5
Work and contributions
Amazon EC2 and Amazon EBS Proprietary product
Amazon's May 2024 leadership announcement describes Garman as the first product manager for EC2 and as the head of the team that defined, launched and operated EBS, and says Garman was general manager of all AWS Compute services from 2016 for about four years.41
Timeline
- Joined Amazon as an MBA intern for the summer.4
- Joined Amazon full time as one of the first AWS product managers.42
- Became general manager of all AWS Compute services.4
- Took on leadership of AWS worldwide sales, marketing, support and professional services.4
- Amazon announced Garman as the next CEO of Amazon Web Services.4
- Became CEO of Amazon Web Services.42
- Delivered the CEO keynote at AWS re:Invent 2024, which included announcements of Trainium2 instances and Amazon Nova models.5
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.
- Senior Vice President of AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services, Amazon Web Services (Amazon)14
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- Amazon 39 people in the wiki
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5 sources · profile reviewed Oct 21, 2026 · data updated Oct 21, 2026