He joined Amazon in 1997, with several other Harvard MBA colleagues.[1] His early roles included marketing manager.[2] In 2003, he and Jeff Bezos came up with the idea to create the cloud computing platform that would become known as Amazon Web Services (AWS), which launched in 2006.[16] Jassy headed AWS and its team of 57 people.[1] In April 2016, Jassy was promoted from senior vice president to CEO of AWS.[17][6]