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Amazon's Jay Carney: Cloud giant plans Indonesian expansion with investment in skills
The company's cloud arm Amazon Web Services (AWS), meanwhile, holds dominance in the cloud computing infrastructure market with a share of 33 percent, according to Synergy Research Group analysis.
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Amazon's senior vice president for global corporate affairs Jay Carney speaks onstage at the Amazon Transparent Screening on Sept. 13, 2016 in Washington, DC. (Agence France Presse/Larry French/Getty Images)
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nly after three decades, Amazon has grown to become one of the largest firms in the world. In the realm of technology, Amazon is now one of the big four tech companies along with Google, Facebook and Apple, with massive reach and wealth. In the United States, Amazon captures nearly half of the US e-commerce market, with sales reaching a staggering US$258 billion in 2018. The company's cloud arm Amazon Web Services (AWS), meanwhile, holds dominance in the cloud computing infrastructure market with a share of 33 percent, according to Synergy Research Group analysis. Last year, the business brought in $25.6 billion in revenue for the company.
But as the company's dominance continues to grow, it has been met with resistance from many governments in the world. In the US, opposition from community leaders in New York City forced the company to abruptly drop its plan to establish a second headquarters in the city. Earlier this month, French lawmakers voted to impose taxes on US tech giants, including Facebook and Google.
Partly to deal with this challenge, in 2015 Amazon hired former Obama White House spokesperson Jay Carney to be its public policy and communications chief. He quickly rose through the ranks and is now one of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' trusted aides. He’s one of only two remote members of Bezos’ exclusive S-team, the 18 most senior executives who work closely with the CEO, along with Amit Agarwal, the head of Amazon India.
During his four-year stint at Amazon, Carney has not granted that many interviews to the media, but last week he agreed to sit down with The Jakarta Post’s Made Anthony Iswara and M. Taufiqurrahman in Jakarta shortly before kicking off an AWS event here. "Don't tell this to reporters in the States," he said early in the interview. He then spoke about the company's plan in Indonesia and his love for American indie band Guided By Voices. Below are excerpts from the interview:
Question: Cloud computing through AWS has recently been facing resistance around the world. Do you see this as a global trend? And compared to other regions in the world, how do you see Asia in terms of regulatory practices?
and compared to other regions in the world, how do you see Asia in terms of regulatory practices
