Matt Garman

Matt Garman has led Amazon Web Services since June 2024 and has been named as a possible external successor to Jensen Huang at Nvidia. The connection is commercial as well as technical: AWS is one of Nvidia's largest customers and supplies AI computing infrastructure. Garman's record spans the products that rent computing power to customers and the sales operation that sells those services. His status remains speculation. There is no recorded statement from Garman, Amazon or Nvidia about his candidacy, and he has not publicly said he wants the job.

He arrived at Amazon as an MBA intern in summer 2005 and joined full-time in 2006. His early work included service level agreements, features and pricing plans. He became EC2's first product manager and led the team that defined, launched and operated Elastic Block Store. In 2020, after 14 years in the product organization, he moved to worldwide sales, marketing, support and professional services. Amazon chose Adam Selipsky for the chief executive role in 2021 before appointing Garman three years later. Under Garman, AWS sales rose 20% in 2025. Third-quarter 2026 sales reached $46 billion, up 39.3%, while operating income rose to $17.8 billion from $11.4 billion a year earlier. His tenure also includes a seven-year, $38 billion computing agreement with OpenAI and the deployment of more than one million Trainium chips.

The questions around his record concern AI execution and management style. In July 2025, Garman acknowledged that AWS had lagged rivals in bringing AI products to market, arguing that the approach was deliberate. Some colleagues have said his confidence can read as arrogance after so much of his career at AWS. His handling of the five-day office mandate also drew employee criticism for bluntness. Those criticisms sit alongside a succession status that establishes only that his name has entered public discussion, with no reported Nvidia board interest.