Senior Vice President, Foundational AI Models, Custom Silicon, and Quantum Computing

Peter DeSantis is senior vice president, leading Amazon's foundational AI models, custom silicon, and quantum computing—positioning him at the forefront of technologies shaping the future of computing. He oversees development of Amazon's most expansive AI models (Nova), custom silicon initiatives (Graviton, Trainium, and Nitro), and quantum computing efforts (Ocelot).

Throughout his career at Amazon, DeSantis has driven innovation at significant scale. In 2006, he led the launch of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) as its general manager, fundamentally changing how companies build and run their infrastructure. He subsequently led the reinvention of foundational cloud services, including Elastic Block Storage, Elastic File System, Elastic Load Balancing, Networking, and Monitoring. In 2015, he spearheaded the acquisition of Annapurna Labs, Amazon's custom silicon team, enabling industry-leading price-performance and breakthrough capabilities like the Nitro System. From 2016 to 2021, he led AWS Global Infrastructure and Customer Support, overseeing data centers across 38 geographic regions and 120 availability zones worldwide. Most recently, as senior vice president of AWS Utility Computing, he oversaw worldwide engineering, operations, and product management for core AWS services and custom chip design.

DeSantis earned a bachelor of arts degree with a dual major in economics and computer science from Dartmouth.