New Delhi, March 24 -- As Andy Jassy is set to exit Amazon Web Services to lead Amazon as Group CEO, Adam Selipsky will lead AWS as the new CEO. The news became public on Tuesday when the e-commerce giant announced that they have brought back a former executive to run its cloud-computing unit. Selipsky will return to Amazon in May, and then become the head of Amazon Web Services later this year. "Adam is not a new face to AWS," Jassy announced.

Adam Selipsky will replace Andy Jassy. The latter will become CEO of Amazon when founder Jeff Bezos steps down. Jeff will take up the role of executive chairman.

Amazon, on Tuesday, said that Adam Selipsky worked at AWS for 11 years. He left the company in 2016 to run software company Tableau. Sa...