Explained: How Amazon future CEO Andy Jassy became Jeff Bezos' shadow

Andy Jassy, AWS CEO and incoming CEO, Amazon, says it is very early days, with respect to what Amazon is hoping to enable for customers in India

Amazon.in was set up in India seven years ago, but the US-based company established its first centre 18 years ago in India in 2003 and incidentally it was focused on its technology arm Amazon Web Services (AWS). 

Amazon Web Services (AWS) chief Andy Jassy travelled to India in 2004 and celebrated Holi with the early small team here. Jassy is now replacing billionaire founder Jeff Bezos as Amazon.com's next chief executive officer.

“That was a great day. It was around 2004 and during Holi celebrations. We had a missionary group of people in Bangalore, from the very start,” says Jassy,