AWS Strikes Back: Microsoft Teams Founder Jigar Thakkar Hired to Lead "Amazon Quick Suite"
- Grace N
- 2 days ago
- 1 min read
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made a major strategic hire by recruiting Jigar Thakkar, the founding engineering leader of Microsoft Teams, to head its new Amazon Quick Suite division. Thakkar, a 19-year Microsoft veteran and former CTO of MSCI, will oversee the development of Amazon's AI-powered digital workspace. This move underscores AWS's aggressive push into enterprise productivity and agentic AI, aiming to leverage Thakkar’s experience in building massive communication platforms to scale Quick Suite, which integrates Amazon Q Business and QuickSight.