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

AWS has hired Chet Kapoor — former CEO of DataStax and ex-Apigee leader — as vice president of security services and observability, a role that will report directly to AWS CEO Matt Garman. Kapoor will work alongside AWS CISO Amy Herzog and take oversight of leaders including Gee Rittenhouse, Nandini Ramani, Georgia Sitaras and Brad Marshall. Garman framed the appointment as a deliberate move to strengthen AWS’s security, governance and observability offerings as the company expands its AI business; at DataStax Kapoor helped build Astra DB (based on Apache Cassandra) and integrated real‑time AI capabilities into the platform. For the AI/ML community this signals a concrete shift: AWS is prioritizing product and operational security around cloud AI deployments. Kapoor’s background in databases, APIs and real‑time AI suggests emphasis on securing data pipelines, API surfaces and model telemetry — areas where observability, governance and incident response intersect with model risk (data leakage, misconfiguration, adversarial behavior). The hire, coming amid other AI leadership turnover and new executive additions, points to tighter integration of security and observability into AWS’s AI product roadmap and could shape how enterprises approach compliance, monitoring and trustworthiness for production ML systems on AWS.