https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjpm87/new-amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-loves-fossil-fuels-and-facial-recognition

On Tuesday, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos announced he would be ascending to the role of executive chairman of the Amazon board. To succeed him, he tapped Andy Jassy, the creator and head of Amazon Web Services. 

The part of the company Jassy currently oversees is Amazon’s main source of profits—a cloud-computing business that, for years, has pulled in huge revenues by hosting computer servers for vast swaths of the digital economy including start-ups and large corporations, but also various government agencies like the Central Intelligence Agency.  AWS has not only played a key role in helping Amazon disregard antitrust law, but in attracting then crushing competitors. During Jassy’s tenure, AWS became the “invisible backbone” of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and has doubled down on cloud contracts with the agency despite over two years of internal and external protests.