Matt Garman

Matt Garman grew up in Scottsdale, Arizona. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in industrial engineering at Stanford UniversityStanford UniversityStanford University is a research university in California founded by Leland and Jane Stanford in 1885 and opened in 1891.Open the full entry and then enrolled in the MBA program at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.⁠[1][2]

In 2005, after his first year at Kellogg, Garman joined what would become Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a summer intern, before AWS launched publicly. He took a full-time job after graduating in 2006, helping launch AWS’s initial set of services in the year AWS launched. He was the division’s first product manager, at a time when it had three salespeople. Recalling the early work, he said: “We did everything.”⁠[1][2]

Garman went on to lead Amazon EC2 and AWS compute services, overseeing product management, engineering and operations for all AWS compute and storage services, and later served as Senior Vice President of AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services.⁠[3][2]

After Andy JassyAndy JassyAndy Jassy (Andrew R. Jassy) is President and CEO of Amazon. He joined Amazon in 1997, led the creation of its cloud computing business Amazon Web Services (AWS), served as AWS’s Senior Vice President and then CEO, and succeeded Jeff Bezos as Amazon’s CEO in July 2021.Open the full entry became Amazon’s CEO in 2021, Amazon chose Adam Selipsky, a former AWS employee who had been running Tableau, to lead AWS.⁠[1]

On May 14, 2024, Amazon announced that Adam Selipsky would step down as CEO of AWS and that Garman would take over on June 3. Andy Jassy wrote in a memo: “Matt has an unusually strong set of skills and experiences for his new role.”⁠[3]

Garman has served as CEO of Amazon Web Services since June 2024. About six months into the role he said “there's not a desire to massively change anything.”⁠[2][1]

On October 8, 2026, the a16zAndreessen HorowitzAndreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. It invests from the seed stage through the growth stage and provides operational support to its portfolio companies.Open the full entry YouTubeYouTubeYouTube is Google’s video-sharing and creator platform, founded in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim and acquired by Google in 2006. Built around video uploading, viewing, and creator earnings, the platform has developed Shorts, YouTube Music, Premium, YouTube TV, and products for children, and is headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States.Open the full entry channel released “Building the Cloud for AI Agents | AWS CEO Matt Garman,” in which Raghu Raghuram of Andreessen Horowitz sat down with Garman to discuss how AI is reshaping the cloud.⁠[4]

Topics listed in the video description include AWS revenue of $169 billion growing 37%, why startups matter to AWS, rethinking cloud infrastructure for AI agents, allocating scarce GPU capacity, whether AI capital spending is a bubble, misconceptions about data centers, AWS’s bets on its Graviton and Trainium chips, where enterprises are stuck with agents, and AI risk, Hugging Face and Continuum.⁠[4]

Amazon Web Services: Official website: https://aws.amazon.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[2]

X: Public account: https://x.com/mattsgarman (opens in a new window).⁠[4]