From regulatory lens to unionisation: Challenges aplenty for Amazon's Jassy

Amazon has been accused of using the proprietary data of third-party vendors to make cheaper, private-label versions of their products

Amazon.com on Monday got a new chief executive: Andy Jassy, the mastermind behind its lucrative cloud computing division, who succeeds company founder Jeff Bezos.

Here’s a look at the business Jassy is taking over and the challenges that await him on the job.

More than the ‘everything store’

Bezos incorporated Amazon exactly 27 years ago. The internet bookseller he founded out of a garage has morphed into a purveyor of virtually any consumer good, online and in physical stores. It has grown far beyond even that: Jassy built an enormously profitable and market-leading business, Amazon Web Services (AWS), that runs data centres serving