Amazon’s VP of AI/ML services is leaving the company following a significant reorganization. The executive was responsible for several teams, including AWS’s leading AI product, Bedrock. Recently, AWS established a new Agentic AI team under the direction of VP Swami Sivasubramanian.
Baskar Sridharan, who was the VP responsible for Amazon Web Services’ primary AI product Bedrock, is stepping down a year after joining the organization. According to sources familiar with the situation, Sridharan plans to leave following a recent restructuring that consolidated various teams within the cloud division. An Amazon spokesperson has opted not to comment on the departure.
Sridharan played a key role in defining the strategic direction and development of some of AWS’s most significant AI products, including Bedrock and SageMaker. Bedrock serves as a development tool that provides access to multiple models and has been crucial in AWS’s efforts in the AI sector. Sridharan joined AWS in May, having previously worked at Google Cloud and Microsoft for over 20 years.
His exit comes as part of a substantial reorganization that created a new Agentic AI team last week within AWS. Swami Sivasubramanian, who was promoted to oversee the team, now reports directly to AWS CEO Matt Garman, according to an internal email reviewed by Business Insider. Sridharan previously reported to Sivasubramanian.
Following this change, the Bedrock and SageMaker AI organizations will be integrated into the AWS compute team led by VP Dave Brown, as noted in another internal communication seen by Business Insider. Additionally, Prasad Kalyanaraman, VP of AWS infrastructure services, will take charge of several networking teams, while VP of technology Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec will assume responsibility for certain data service units. Furthermore, Amazon’s Q chatbot teams will be incorporated into the newly formed Agentic AI group.
Sridharan’s departure is part of a series of notable exits from AWS recently. Last year, former AWS CEO Adam Selipsky, CMO Raejeanne Skillern, CFO Richard Puccio, and AI VP Matt Wood also left the company.
Amazon is facing intense competition in the AI domain, with rivals such as Google and OpenAI all vying for dominance. In one of the internal emails, Garman mentioned that the new Agentic AI team holds the potential to develop Amazon’s “next multi-billion-dollar business.” He stated, “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.”
