CEOs and CIOs Talk About Transformation

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Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipzky talks about a cultural transformation that his customers are obsessed with. He also discusses Amazon's responsibility as a scaled business to leverage its expertise for societal impact in key areas from education to housing equity. Plus, why the cloud is still in its early days and how AWS helped the Ukrainian government protect itself from cyber attacks in the war with Russia.

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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