Amazon Web Services has lost its top cloudy executive Chris Vonderhaar who was the bloke who planned, designed and constructed AWS’ data centres.
For those who came in late, AWS datacentres power the $85bn cloud company’s infrastructure and cloud services.
Vonderhaar had been with the company for nearly 13 years in top cloud infrastructure roles and it is unclear why he has left. In 2021, it was thought that Vonderhaar would be a successor to former AWS CEO Andy Jassy, recently promoted to CEO of Amazon.
In addition to leading the Amazon subsidiary’s datacentre global strategy, Vonderhaar was responsible for business development and procurement of utility connections, the AWS renewable energy portfolio, and AWS sustainability teams and business, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Vonderhaar first joined AWS in 2010 as director of infrastructure planning and product management, according to his LinkedIn profile.
He was promoted to vice president of infrastructure forecasting, planning and Amazon corporate systems in 2017, responsible for datacentre capacity planning, real estate sourcing and service delivery for AWS and Amazon product teams. Vonderhaar has been vice president of the AWS datacentre community since late 2018.
Prior to AWS, Vonderhaar was a top executive for Level 3 Communications from 1998 to 2008, where he was vice president of customer media operations. Level 3 was later acquired by CenturyLink. Before Level 3, he worked for Accenture and GE Capital during the 1990s.
