Jassy worked as a project manager for a collectibles company, MBI, and then he and an MBI colleague started a company and closed it down. He joined Amazon as a marketing manager in 1997. 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. Jassy was promoted from senior vice president to CEO of AWS in 2016, and succeeded Jeff Bezos as the CEO of Amazon in 2021.