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Amazon’s Andy Jassy Inherits an Empire of Drones, Games, and More

The man stepping into Jeff Bezos’ job has a portfolio of cash cows and moonshots.

Andy Jassy, chief executive officer of Amazon Web Services, speaks at the AWS Summit in San Francisco on April 19, 2017. Jassy is leading a push into artificial intelligence to boost Amazon's cloud computing, which commands about 45 of the market for infrastructure as a service, where companies buy basic computing and storage power from the cloud. — Andy Jassy, chief executive officer of Amazon Web Services, speaks at the AWS Summit in San Francisco on April 19, 2017. Jassy is leading a push into artificial intelligence to boost Amazon's cloud computing, which commands about 45 of the market for infrastructure as a service, where companies buy basic computing and storage power from the cloud.
Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

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By Matt Day

February 12, 2021 at 11:00 AM UTC

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This article is part of the February 15, 2021 issue of businessweek.

When Jeff Bezos steps down as chief executive officer of Amazon.com Inc., he’ll leave his successor, Andy Jassy, a sprawling empire of giant businesses and moonshot experiments. Here are some of the $1.7 trillion company’s most ambitious projects.

Amazon Game Studios has been churning through almost $500 million a year trying to develop blockbuster games. So far, none has been a hit, Bloomberg reported in January. In early February, Jassy said he’s still committed to the gaming business.