Adam Selipsky
@aselipsky
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Husband & dad. Water skier/tennis player. Fan of Sounders & Seahawks. Former CEO at #AWS, Former President & CEO at Tableau.
Seattle, WA
Joined October 2009
After almost 15 combined years at AWS, I am going to be moving on. It has been a true privilege to help lead this business from pre-revenue to $100B annualized revenue. I’m humbled by the many customers who have said they wouldn’t be what they are without AWS, thankful to our.
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When I first started at @AWScloud 16 years ago, #cloudcomputing was not even in it’s infancy. Today, it’s inspiring to see how #AWS customers, partners, employees have embraced & driven this movement – though it's early days. Thrilled to be back for this next chapter. #DayOne.
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We’re announcing Amazon Bedrock—giving customers the easiest way to build and scale generative AI applications with access to the leading foundation models including @AnthropicAI, @AI21Labs, @StabilityAI and Amazon Titan FMs. Choice rules!.
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This weekend we said goodbye for the last time to our dear nephew who passed away from #Covid_19, leaving a loving wife and small children. Please, please everyone get vaccinated, for your own sake and that of everyone else.
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It has been a privilege and a pleasure to serve as CEO of @tableau. You're in great hands with @MarkTNelson. Thank you to the entire #DataFam . I will always be one of you!.
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Water scarcity, quality, and access continue to be major sustainability challenges. #AWS is taking new steps to combat these growing threats with plans to be water positive by 2030 & supporting innovation that will fundamentally change the water sector.
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Excited to partner with leading generative AI companies like @huggingface—our collaboration will make large language models more accessible, easy to train and deploy, and cost-efficient for developers. #AWS #LLMs
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Grateful to everyone who made 2021 so special at #AWS. Best wishes to our employees, partners, and customers for an amazing 2022!🎇.
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Incredibly grateful for the warm welcome (back) this week – made sweeter by colleagues, customers/partners & friends. #AWS
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Amazon Aurora processed 233 billion transactions, stored 1,595 terabytes of data, and transferred 615 terabytes of data on #PrimeDay2021 – talk about operating at scale. More intriguing stats in @JeffBarr’s post about #AWS supporting Prime Day:.
Prime Day 2021 - Two Chart-Topping Days - #AWS . Brought to you by EC2, Graviton2, CloudFront, SQS, EBS, DynamoDB, and much more!.
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For #PrimeDay this year, Amazon Aurora processed 318 billion transactions, stored 2,140 terabytes of data, and transferred 836 terabytes of data, while DynamoDB handled trillions of calls and peaked at 126 million requests per second. Always fascinating to see these.
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Today we announced the completion of 16 #AWS Local Zones in the US and plans for 32 more to be built globally. Local Zones offer ultra-low latency at the edge of the cloud—awesome for gaming, streaming, ML, more!.
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Standing on the Athabasca Glacier near Banff. Glad to see this natural wonder now as it may disappear entirely within 50-75 years. Time to act.
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I was honored to represent @amazon today at a White House event, where leaders across government and industry committed to continue promoting the safe, secure, and transparent development of AI technology. These commitments build on Amazon’s approach to responsible and secure AI
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It was a pleasure welcoming New Zealand’s Prime Minster, Jacinda Ardern, to our Seattle campus today. We’re aiming to power our new NZ$7.5B Region with 100% renewable energy and add over 200 staff to the #AWS Kiwi team to support our customers and partners in Aotearoa.
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🚀 Today, we are thrilled to share that Amazon Q is now generally available. ◼Amazon Q is the most capable generative AI-powered assistant for accelerating software development and leveraging companies’ internal data. It eliminates tedious work for developers and employees
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What an honor! Thank you to @ZelenskyyUa and @FedorovMykhailo for this recognition. We remain committed to the people of Ukraine and will continue to ensure Ukraine’s digital infrastructure remains safe and secure with #AWS.
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A few big announcements from today’s keynote!. * Amazon Q: a new type of generative AI-powered assistant tailored to your business that provides actionable information and advice in real time to streamline tasks, speed decision making, and spark creativity, built with rock-solid
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Free college tuition for our hourly employees. Expanded pledge to provide training to 300K employees. New programs to help people with little or no technical skills become data center technicians, IT engineers, and UX designers. All around good news for Amazon's workforce today!.
Amazon is offering to cover four-year college tuition for most of its approximately 750,000 hourly workers in the United States, the latest major employer to offer the perk to attract and retain hourly employees in a tight job market.
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Ready for a byte of pie with the family. Wishing you all a wonderful Thanksgiving. See you at #AWSreInvent!
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In addition to donating money and supporting humanitarian orgs through our #AWS Disaster Response teams, our cybersecurity experts have been helping Ukrainian businesses and partners fight online threats for weeks:.
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As part of our commitment to train 29 million people on cloud computing, we’ve doubled our #AWS re/Start program to more than 50 cities in 25 countries, providing both skills and job opportunities. Just getting started.
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Reflecting on the past 15 years of Amazon EC2… 15 years of building the world’s broadest and deepest compute offering. Happy Anniversary!
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¡Hola, México! Today, we’re announcing plans to launch an @awscloud infrastructure Region in Mexico by early 2025. This Region will give developers, startups, enterprises, and other organizations more choice to run workloads & serve end users with lower latency, while meeting.
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Amazon CodeWhisperer is a giant leap forward in helping developers code quickly and securely while focusing on where they can add value. The best part—it’s available to all individual developers for free! #AWS #GenerativeAI
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It’s never been more critical for companies to lead on #cleanenergy. Proud @Amazon @AWScloud are the largest corporate wind & solar buyer in the world & also 5 yrs early on our commitment to power operations with 100% renewable energy. #ClimatePledge
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If you’ve been wanting to experiment with #generativeAI, check out PartyRock powered by Amazon Bedrock. With PartyRock, anyone can learn about prompt engineering/writing and build apps in just a few clicks. I built one to find the best bike trails in the
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Just unveiled our plans for the new #AWS Region in Auckland, expanding our commitments to current and future customers, partners, employees, and the citizens of New Zealand.
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.@BMWGroup has selected @awscloud to power its next-gen automated driving platform. Great to see AWS’s @kathrin_renz & BMW’s Dr. Nicolai Martin share this news at IAA Mobility in Munich. The BMW Group’s new cloud-based system will use AWS compute, #generativeAI, IoT, machine
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Excited to continue to bring top high performing LLMs to developers & customers. Falcon 40B, an open source LLM trained on Amazon SageMaker, and currently the top performing LLM on the @huggingface Open LLM Leaderboard, is now available to @awscloud customers on SageMaker
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.@awscloud is investing an additional $15 billion to expand our cloud computing infrastructure in Japan. This investment will support tens of thousands of new jobs and help drive innovation across industries. We're committed to providing our customers operating in Japan with the.
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Honored to host Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation @FedorovMykhailo at #reInvent. We’re proud to be working with him and the Ukrainian Government. We continue to stand in support of Ukraine.
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We are excited to announce the launch of our second Top Secret Region—AWS Top Secret-West. AWS is committed to helping our customers and partners in the defense, intelligence, and national security communities deliver their most critical missions.
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Honored to have signed on to this “risky bet” in 2005. But turns out it’s actually about transforming organizations, not just web technology.
I have this old 2006 BusinessWeek framed as a reminder. The “risky bet” that Wall Street disliked was AWS, which generated revenue of more than $62 billion last year.
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Digital skill development will unlock tens of millions of jobs including for the unemployed and underemployed. #AWS is expanding our cloud skills training initiative—we're on our way to training 29 million people by 2025.
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Congratulations @NIDeveloper on receiving the first Now Go Build award, and from @Werner himself! Amazing!. How it started How it's going
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Container & serverless apps are booming as customers improve agility & reduce operational burden. Welcome to #AWS Proton, the world's 1st fully managed app delivery service for containers & serverless.
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Marking 16 years of the cloud today – happy birthday to Amazon S3! 200 trillion+ objects stored, 100 million requests per second—wow! Check out @jeffbarr’s latest to hear more about what’s coming next in S3.
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Counting down the days! Repost or comment if you’ll be in Las Vegas or tuning in for all the big news we’ll be sharing at #AWSreInvent!
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Taking a moment to pause… so grateful for family, friends, colleagues, customers, and partners. Wishing you all a very Happy Thanksgiving!
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Taking care of and supporting employees' needs is critical. @Amazon pays for employee medical services and travel if a service is not available in their local area.
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Happy #AWSreInvent eve! I’m here in Las Vegas and looking forward to seeing many of you. We’re marking 12 years of re:Invent and we couldn’t be more excited for what’s ahead. We have a lot of cool innovations to share. Whether you’re here with us in person or keeping track
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No one is more important to us than our builders. If you're an AWS tech enthusiast looking to level up, consider joining the #AWS Community Builders program—applications close today.
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Happy #IndependenceDay to all who are celebrating! I'm firing up the grill to enjoy a fun-filled day with family, friends, and fireworks.
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As a proud Seattleite who grew up playing youth soccer here, excited to be on the team working to bring the 2026 FIFA World Cup to Seattle.
Today marks the announcement of the Executive Committee and brand platform to bring the FIFA World Cup 2026™️ to Seattle, known as SEA 2026. Follow @Seattle_2026 for more updates! #SEA2026. MORE ➡️
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Having some end-of-summer fun with a few of my closest colleagues #HereAtAWS. Great connecting in person with our builders in Seattle!
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.@awscloud has long been vested in India’s growth as a digital powerhouse, and I’m inspired to see how our infrastructure presence since 2016 has driven such tremendous progress. Today we’re announcing additional planned investment of $12.7 billion for cloud infrastructure in
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Most people don't get a chance to visit our @awscloud data centers. Today, you're getting that opportunity as we're providing a glimpse inside. Meet Dallin, Tasha, and Fidel, three of our dedicated employees who keep things running securely for our customers. Check out their
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Thank you to everyone who tuned in for my #AWSreInvent keynote here in Las Vegas and online!.A special thanks to the @awscloud team for your work to make this happen, and to the guests who joined me today— Dario Amodei from @AnthropicAI, Stephan Durach from @BMWGroup, Jensen
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Customers are excited about Amazon Bedrock, and now it’s generally available to help businesses of any size innovate with #generativeAI. Today, we have several other big updates to share:. 🔷 Amazon Titan Embeddings and Meta's Llama 2 models are coming to Amazon Bedrock, giving.
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Best Buy has chosen #AWS as its strategic cloud provider! Just the latest retailer partnering with AWS to run in the cloud, innovate new capabilities for customers, and develop the next generation of cloud engineering talent.
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Today, we shared that @awscloud invested in @huggingface to continue supporting their mission to enable broad access to top foundation models for developers. I’m excited to deepen our collaboration with Hugging Face and continue our work together to accelerate the availability.
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#AWS was named a Top 100 Large Company to Work For – I am committed to becoming earth’s best employer! .
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By swimming in #data, the Aussie swim team harnessed the power of #AWS to bring home nine gold medals at #Tokyo2020!
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It’s hard to put into words just how incredible the past week has been. I am so grateful to everyone who played a part in #AWSreInvent 2023. Thank you to all the customers, partners, and builders who made this event such a success. I wish you all safe travels back home, and I
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Announcing the launch of the @awscloud Canada West (Calgary) Region! Our second AWS infrastructure Region in Canada provides customers with another option to run workloads with the highest levels of resilience and availability, securely store data in Canada, and serve end users.
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It’s Day 1: who’s ready to rock #AWSreInvent? ✋Watch to the end for a glimpse of a future @awscloud builder!
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What would Wonder Woman and Spider-Man name their business?. Amazon Web Services.
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It is so sad and distressing to bear witness to the attacks against Israel this weekend. We are thinking about all those impacted and their loved ones. Through the past few days we’ve been talking to our AWS teammates in Israel, offering our support. Our priority is to make sure.
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Earlier today, I sent a note out to all #AWS employees reflecting on the last year. I think we have the best team in the world, and it’s incredible working with them every day. Happy holidays to all!
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Security has been and always will be the No. 1 priority at #AWS. It was great to share the virtual stage with @StephenSchmidt and others at AWS #reInforce today, covering all things security, identity, and compliance.
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“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” #HappyHalloween from Middle-earth! #TheRingsOfPower
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.@Werner closed out the #AWSreInvent keynotes talking about the Laws of Frugal Architecture for building cost-aware, cloud-native systems. He also showcased a future where everyone is capable of leveraging #AI to tackle the world's toughest problems. Be sure to check out Werner's
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The AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region is now open, giving customers greater choice for running their applications and securely storing data in Israel while serving end users with even lower latency.
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It’s never been more critical to fight climate change. My heart goes out to everyone suffering through the wildfires on the West Coast of the U.S. and the deadly flooding in Germany and other parts of Europe. Let’s work together on the problem of our generation.
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Today, we're announcing major new updates for Amazon Bedrock that give customers unparalleled flexibility, choice, and security when developing advanced generative AI apps. One I’m especially excited about is the Custom Model Import capability, which allows customers to bring.
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Virtual athletes helping their real-world counterparts—amazing stuff. Proud to be partnering with the @NFL as we use data and machine learning to predict and eventually prevent player injury.
A stadium as a data source that can shape the future of football? . The NFL and @awscloud are using artificial intelligence to create the ‘Digital Athlete’ – an injury prediction and prevention tool.
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Fun hanging out with @jimcramer today @MadMoneyOnCNBC - talked about everything from Moderna and NFL to our custom chip development!
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Thank you, @ScuderiaFerrari! Proud #AWS is your Official #Cloud Provider as we transform industries like #automotive & #sports. Look forward to helping accelerate the pace of innovation on the road & track. Best of luck this weekend at the #FrenchGP! 🏎️🏁
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Excited to be working alongside @GoldmanSachs CEO David Solomon and his team to reinvent financial services. Great collaboration on new data and analytics capabilities for our financial services customers.
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.@AnthropicAI has chosen @awscloud as its primary cloud provider for mission critical workloads. Anthropic has developed some of the most powerful #generativeAI technologies in the world, and we are proud to be expanding our work together, including Anthropic using our custom.
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I’ve been fortunate to work with some amazing people during my time at @amazon. One thing most of them have in common is that they excel at several of our company’s Leadership Principles—Invent and Simplify, Dive Deep, Customer Obsession, and Ownership, to name a few.
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#AWS is continuing to bring the power of the cloud to advance climate science. This initiative will offer the world’s researchers and governments the ability to study climate change impacts on Earth and human systems – from agriculture, drought, and flooding to human health.
Amazon is supporting the first-ever full production climate model simulations on the #cloud- a groundbreaking step with potential to accelerate #climateresearch & democratize access to #climate research capabilities. With @SilverLiningNGO & @NCAR_Science
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Claude 3 Opus, the powerhouse AI model from @AnthropicAI, is now available on Amazon Bedrock. Opus can tackle highly complex tasks with remarkable fluency, and has the ability to navigate open-ended scenarios with human-like understanding. Bedrock is the easiest and most secure
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