Amazon Web Services (AWS) is undergoing a significant leadership change in its artificial intelligence division. Baskar Sridharan, who held the position of Vice President of AI/ML services at Amazon, is departing the company just one year after joining.
The shakeup follows a major reorganization within AWS’s AI division. According to a report in Business Insider, Swami Sivasubramanian, currently the Vice President of AI and data, has been promoted to lead the new division. He will now report directly to AWS CEO Matt Garman. Sridharan previously reported to Sivasubramanian.
Sridharan, who brought over two decades of experience from Google Cloud and Microsoft, was responsible for key AI products at AWS, including Bedrock and SageMaker. Bedrock is AWS’s primary offering in the competitive AI market, providing developers access to various AI models through a unified platform.
Restructuring and New Leadership
The leadership change is part of a larger restructuring effort that has established a new Agentic AI team within AWS. As a result of this reorganization, the Bedrock and SageMaker AI organizations will be integrated under the AWS compute team, led by Vice President Dave Brown. Additionally, Prasad Kalyanaraman, VP of AWS infrastructure services, will take on responsibilities for several networking teams, while VP of technology Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec will oversee additional data service units. The restructuring also includes integrating Amazon’s Q chatbot teams into the new Agentic AI group.
Garman emphasized the strategic significance of the reorganization in an internal email, stating that the new Agentic AI team has the potential to build the next “multi-billion-dollar business” for Amazon as it competes with Google, OpenAI, and similar companies in the rapidly-evolving AI market.
“We’re in the midst of the most significant technological transformation since the inception of cloud computing, and our customers are seeing unprecedented productivity gains through generative AI,” Garman wrote in the email.
