Baskar Sridharan has left Amazon Web Services (AWS) after just one year with the company, amidst a significant reorganization of its artificial intelligence division.
Swami Sivasubramanian, currently the vice president of AI and data, has been promoted to lead the newly formed division and will now report directly to AWS CEO Matt Garman. The shakeup integrates key AI products and teams under new leadership. This move highlights AWS’s strategic focus on leveraging generative AI to drive technological transformation.
Sridharan, who previously spent over 20 years at Google Cloud and Microsoft, was responsible for overseeing key AWS AI products, including Bedrock and SageMaker. Bedrock is AWS’s primary offering in the competitive AI market, providing developers access to numerous AI models through a single platform.
Leadership Changes at AWS
The leadership change comes amidst a major restructuring that established a new Agentic AI team within AWS. As part of the reorganization, the Bedrock and SageMaker AI organizations will move under the AWS compute team, which is headed by VP Dave Brown.
Prasad Kalyanaraman, the VP of AWS infrastructure services, will assume responsibility for several networking teams, and VP of technology Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec will incorporate additional data service units.
Meanwhile, Amazon’s Q chatbot teams will be integrated into the new Agentic AI group.
This departure marks the latest in a series of high-profile executive exits from AWS, including former CEO Adam Selipsky, CMO Raejeanne Skillern, CFO Richard Puccio, and AI VP Matt Wood.
In an internal email, CEO Matt Garman emphasized the strategic importance of the reorganization. He noted that the new Agentic AI team had the potential to build Amazon’s “next multi-billion-dollar business” as the company competes with industry leaders like Google and OpenAI in the rapidly evolving AI market.
Garman wrote, “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.”
