AWS hires new security VP who will report directly to CEO Matt Garman (www.businessinsider.com)

AWS has hired Chet Kapoor, former DataStax CEO, as vice president of security services and observability; he will report directly to AWS CEO Matt Garman and work alongside AWS CISO Amy Herzog. Kapoor brings experience building Astra DB (based on Apache Cassandra) and integrating real‑time AI capabilities there, plus prior leadership at Apigee (API management) and roles at IBM. Garman’s email says several leaders (including Gee Rittenhouse, Nandini Ramani, Georgia Sitaras and Brad Marshall) will now report to Kapoor, signaling a consolidation of security, governance and observability under his remit as AWS expands its AI business. For the AI/ML community this hire underscores AWS’s move to harden the security and operational plumbing that supports production AI. Kapoor’s background in distributed databases, API platforms and real‑time AI suggests AWS may double down on secure data infrastructure, telemetry, model monitoring, governance tooling and observability features that enable enterprise‑grade ML deployments at scale. The appointment — amid other leadership churn in AWS’s AI ranks — is a clear signal that product teams will prioritize tighter controls, compliance and operational visibility around models, data flows and APIs as AWS competes to host more mission‑critical AI workloads.