- Amazon’s VP of AI/ML services is leaving after a major reorg.
- The exec ran several teams, including AWS’s flagship AI product Bedrock.
- AWS recently created a new Agentic AI team under VP Swami Sivasubramanian.
The VP in charge of Amazon’s flagship AI product Bedrock is stepping down a year after joining the company.
Baskar Sridharan, Amazon Web Services’s VP of AI/ML services and Data Services & Infrastructure, plans to leave following a recent reorganization that consolidated several teams within the cloud business, according to people familiar with the matter. An Amazon spokesperson declined to comment.
Sridharan oversaw the strategic direction and development of AWS’s biggest AI products, including Bedrock and Sagemaker, according to a company profile. Bedrock is a development tool that gives access to multiple models and has served as AWS’s main horse in the AI race. Sridharan joined AWS in May, after working at Google Cloud and Microsoft for more than 20 years.
Sridharan’s departure is part of a big shake-up that created a new Agentic AI team last week within AWS. Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of AI and data, was promoted to lead the team and now reports directly to AWS CEO Matt Garman, according to an internal email seen by Business Insider. Sridharan reported to Sivasubramanian.
As part of this change, the Bedrock and Sagemaker AI organizations will move under the AWS compute team led by VP Dave Brown, according to another internal email seen by BI. Prasad Kalyanaraman, VP of AWS infrastructure services, will take over several networking teams, and VP of technology Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec will add some of the data service units. Amazon’s Q chatbot teams will join the new Agentic AI group.
Sridharan is part of several recent high-profile departures at AWS. Former AWS CEO Adam Selipsky, CMO Raejeanne Skillern, CFO Richard Puccio, and AI VP Matt Wood left the company last year.
Amazon faces fierce competition in the AI space, with companies ranging from Google to OpenAI all vying for supremacy. In one of the emails, Garman said the new Agentic AI team has the potential to build Amazon’s “next multi-billion-dollar business.”
“We’re in the midst of the most significant technological transformation since the inception of cloud computing, and our customers are seeing unprecedented productivity gains through generative AI,” Garman wrote.
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