Matthew Garman

“I do think that half of white-collar jobs may change, but it doesn't mean wipe out and change are different, right? And so, um you know, Excel wiped out all of the jobs of people who are hand calculating things, but it they those people then learned how to use a computer, and there you go. They they Now they had a job...”

— From Why Amazon is hiring 11,000 junior employees, Casey Newton (June 23, 2026)

“Number one, they're your cheapest employees. They haven't learned bad habits. You can teach them the culture. They're willing to learn the new tools. They're some of the very best employees you can possibly have. But I tell all of our employees, if you if if you look at what your job was 2 years ago, and you look at wh...”

— From Why Amazon is hiring 11,000 junior employees, Casey Newton (June 23, 2026)

“I think we are well on the way to there. And in fact, if anything, I think things are moving even faster than we even expected. I think across almost every single industry and every customer I talk to, agents are absolutely exploding and changing the way people do business.”

— From What's Next with AWS - AWS and OpenAI leaders on Agentic AI | Amazon Web Services, Amazon Web Services (April 28, 2026)

“We've launched things like DevOps Agent, and what it allows us to do is much more rapidly get to the problem that customers are experiencing. We can troubleshoot autonomously. We can actually identify when there's problems ahead of, when customers even recognize it and pinpoint when there's and where the root cause of...”

— From What's Next with AWS - AWS and OpenAI leaders on Agentic AI | Amazon Web Services, Amazon Web Services (April 28, 2026)

“I see the demand for that really accelerating. I think as we think about where AI really takes off and where agents can help free us from the monotony of the repeatable parts of our task, it's really about leaning into those new things that we can do and thinking about what's possible. And I see many more opportunities...”

— From What's Next with AWS - AWS and OpenAI leaders on Agentic AI | Amazon Web Services, Amazon Web Services (April 28, 2026)

“Amazon is hiring 11,000 new SDE interns and full-time employees this year. Like that, that is not jobs going away, right? That's an important area that we're going to continue to invest in.”

— From What's Next with AWS - AWS and OpenAI leaders on Agentic AI | Amazon Web Services, Amazon Web Services (April 28, 2026)

“I think it probably is a little bit overblown, honestly. And what I mean is, I do think that almost every single one of those SaaS applications is going to be rewritten for the AI and agentcore world. That's absolutely true. But the incumbent providers today have such a huge advantage. They really do. They have deep do...”

— From What's Next with AWS - AWS and OpenAI leaders on Agentic AI | Amazon Web Services, Amazon Web Services (April 28, 2026)

“Quick is the way for companies to get AI and an AI assistant in the hands of every employee that they have across the company. And it allows customers to leverage data across all of their enterprise. It's the single best AI productivity enhancement I've tried of anything.”

— From AWS CEO Matt Garman Talks OpenAI Tech After Microsoft Cedes Exclusivity | Bloomberg Talks, Bloomberg Podcasts (April 28, 2026)

“We see that every application in the world is going to be remade with AI. We think agents are going to totally change how work is done, how jobs are efficiently done. And we think we have some opportunities to have some unique offerings in that space that really change the game.”

— From AWS CEO Matt Garman Talks OpenAI Tech After Microsoft Cedes Exclusivity | Bloomberg Talks, Bloomberg Podcasts (April 28, 2026)

“Starting in preview today, we have OpenAI's model 5.4 and 5.5 is coming in the next couple of weeks. We're also collaborating on a new offering which we call managed agents featuring OpenAI which is a complete managed AI capability. So customers can really easily make stateful agents and build agentic applications toge...”

— From AWS CEO Matt Garman Talks OpenAI Tech After Microsoft Cedes Exclusivity | Bloomberg Talks, Bloomberg Podcasts (April 28, 2026)

“There is still, I think, more demand out there than there is supply. The OpenAI team would gladly take more capacity from us this year and next year and the year after that as we add it. We are still working really hard to continue to add more capacity whether it's power, whether it's chips, whether it's memory all aro...”

— From AWS CEO Matt Garman Talks OpenAI Tech After Microsoft Cedes Exclusivity | Bloomberg Talks, Bloomberg Podcasts (April 28, 2026)

“Microsoft has benefited from the growth of AWS since the very early days. They build great software. They have good partnerships and they should benefit from those. But customers really want to use those technologies. If Microsoft benefits because their software or their partnerships or their licenses are being used in...”

— From AWS CEO Matt Garman Talks OpenAI Tech After Microsoft Cedes Exclusivity | Bloomberg Talks, Bloomberg Podcasts (April 28, 2026)

“Quick is the way for companies to get AI and assistant in the hands of every employee that they have across the company. And it allows customers to leverage data across all of their enterprise.”

— From Amazon Inks Deal with OpenAI, Plans New AWS Applications, Bloomberg Technology (April 28, 2026)

“We see that every application in the world is going to be remade with AI. We think agents are going to totally change how work is done, how jobs are efficiently done.”

— From Amazon Inks Deal with OpenAI, Plans New AWS Applications, Bloomberg Technology (April 28, 2026)

“Starting in preview today, we have OpenAI's model 5.4 and 5.5 is coming in the next couple of weeks. We're also collaborating on a new offering, which is called Managed Agents, featuring OpenAI, which is a complete managed agent capability.”

— From Amazon Inks Deal with OpenAI, Plans New AWS Applications, Bloomberg Technology (April 28, 2026)