By Eugene Kim,Ashley Stewart
Publication Date: 2026-10-05 17:45:00
Amazon hired former Microsoft Copilot CTO Pedram Rezaei to help the e-commerce and cloud giant build out its agentic AI business.
Rezaei joined AWS as a distinguished engineer in its Agentic AI and Emerging Technologies group, according to an email announcement on Monday.
He spent two decades at Microsoft, most recently training foundation models on the company’s Superintelligence team. Rezaei served as Copilot’s CTO until June and previously held senior technical roles in key product areas including search engine Bing and business software suite Dynamics 365.
At Amazon, Rezaei will initially work on Quick and Kiro, two products Amazon sees as central to its AI agent strategy, according to the email by Swami Sivasubramanian, the company’s VP of agentic AI. An Amazon spokesperson shared the memo with Business Insider.
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