Amazon cloud’s top AI executive is leaving one year after joining the company

Amazon Web Services' vice president of AI/ML services, Baskar Sridharan, is leaving the company just one year after joining, a report has said. His departure follows a significant reorganisation within AWS's artificial intelligence division.

Citing people familiar with the matter, Business Insider reported that Swami Sivasubramanian, vice president of AI and data, has been promoted to lead this new division and will now report directly to AWS CEO Matt Garman. Sridharan had previously reported to Sivasubramanian.

Sridharan, who previously worked at Google Cloud and Microsoft for over 20 years, was responsible for overseeing AWS's flagship AI products, including Bedrock and SageMaker.

Bedrock has been AWS's primary offering in the competitive AI market, providing developers access to multiple AI models through a single platform.

How AWS leadership has changed after reorganisation

The leadership change comes amid a major restructuring that established a new Agentic AI team within AWS.

As part of the reorganisation, the Bedrock and SageMaker AI organisations will move under AWS's compute team led by VP Dave Brown. Prasad Kalyanaraman, 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

Sridharan joins several other high-profile executives who have recently left AWS, including former CEO Adam Selipsky, CMO Raejeanne Skillern, CFO Richard Puccio, and AI VP Matt Wood.

In an internal email, Garman highlighted the strategic importance of the reorganization, noting that the new Agentic AI team has the potential to build Amazon's “next multi-billion-dollar business” as the company competes with Google, OpenAI, and others 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.


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