What's the Most Important Decision You've Made?

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What continues to surprise me is just the sheer innovation and the breadth of that innovation in our customer base. Today, you just see customers using the cloud to transform not only their organizations, but entire industries. We're working with the NFL to build a digital athlete which can understand and anticipate the effect of different pieces of the players' equipment on their health and safety. It's just incredible in every industry.

Amazon wants to get bigger, but with that scale comes great responsibility. So says Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon Web Services, the most profitable and fastest growing part of the tech giant. Selipsky, who also oversees Amazon’s climate change efforts, points to two additions to the company’s vaunted “Leadership Principles” as evidence of Amazon’s commitment. Arguing that AWS is still in early days, he shares what he’s hearing from other CEOs about their biggest concerns, why “carbon intensity” is the best measure of climate progress for businesses, and what Amazon's aspiration to be “Earth’s best employer” really means.

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