Soon-to-be former Amazon (AMZN) Web Services (AWS) veteran Dave Brown will be joining Facebook parent Meta (META) to bolster the latter's cloud ambitions. Brown, who was with AWS for 19 years, will leave his post in July, according to internal communications at AWS.
Notable broker Wedbush has given this a thumbs up and has opined that Meta's desire to be a material player in the cloud industry is serious. In a note to clients, Matt Bryson of the firm said, "This addition builds on the narrative that Meta is serious in building out its own AI cloud offering (though ostensibly Dave Brown's expertise could be used to support the build-out of infrastructure for internal Meta use as well)."