Matt Garman

CEO Amazon Web Services Amazon

Last Reviewed: October 1, 2026

Executive Summary

Matt Garman has run Amazon Web Services since June 2024. He is a product of AWS itself. Amazon’s filings record him running EC2 from 2012, then all compute services, then the business’s marketing, sales and support organisation. His tenure as CEO has coincided with an AI-driven reacceleration: in the second quarter of 2026 AWS grew 37 percent, its fastest growth in 18 quarters, to a $169 billion annualised run rate.

Career Highlights

• CEO Amazon Web Services since June 2024, and an executive officer of Amazon.
• Senior Vice President, Amazon Web Services from February 2021 to June 2024.
• Vice President of Marketing, Sales and Support at AWS from January 2020 to February 2021.
• Vice President, AWS Compute Services from September 2018 to January 2020.
• Vice President, EC2 from December 2012 to September 2018.

Professional Journey

Garman studied industrial engineering at Stanford University, earning a bachelor’s degree and an M.S., and took an MBA at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Amazon’s filings trace his AWS career from December 2012, when he was Vice President of EC2. He led it until September 2018, when he became Vice President of AWS Compute Services. In January 2020 he moved to the commercial side as Vice President of Marketing, Sales and Support. In February 2021 he became a Senior Vice President of AWS.

In June 2024 he was named CEO of Amazon Web Services, reporting into a company whose chief executive had founded AWS. In 2026 the business accelerated. Amazon’s second-quarter results showed AWS net sales up 37 percent, the fastest growth in 18 quarters. Its AI business passed a $25 billion annual revenue run rate, growing at triple-digit rates, and so did Amazon’s chips business, with the company citing momentum for its Trainium chips.

Education

Stanford University

Industrial Engineering (bachelor’s and M.S.)

Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management

MBA