AWS chief says it's 'folklore' that Amazon will destroy competition in any new market it enters

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Andy Jassy, the CEO of Amazon Web Services, pointed to Amazon's failed smartphone launch in 2014, and said that despite Amazon's success in online payments, 'PayPal seems to be doing quite well.'

Andy Jassy, the CEO of Amazon Web Services, said on Wednesday that the only markets Amazon has truly disrupted are retail and tech infrastructure.

"In both cases, they were models that were pretty antiquated," Jassy said, in an on-stage interview at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference. Jassy cited smartphones and payments as areas where plenty of companies have succeeded despite Amazon's investments. Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, speaks at the 2019 CERAWeek by IHS Markit conference in Houston, Texas, on March 11, 2019.is eating away at every industry on the planet, Andy Jassy, the head of the company's cloud division, says much of that concern is overblown.

He dismissed the "folklore" that anytime Amazon launches a new business, it's automatically going to kill all the competition in those areas. He pointed to Amazon's

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