Wednesday, May 31, 2023

"Amazon confirms abrupt departure of AWS data center chief Chris Vonderhaar" (AMZN)

 From GeekWire, May 30, 4:49 pm PDT:

The Amazon Web Services executive who oversaw the cloud giant’s massive network of data centers is suddenly gone, without explanation.

Amazon confirmed the departure of Chris Vonderhaar, who had been at the company for nearly 13 years, in response to a GeekWire inquiry on Tuesday.

Based in Seattle, Vonderhaar was responsible for “the design, planning, construction and operations of the AWS global data center fleet,” according to his LinkedIn profile. We’ve sent him a message seeking comment.

Word of his departure emerged after Amazon employees noticed that he was missing from the internal corporate directory. As of earlier today, there had been no announcement....

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