Amazon Gets New Logistics Chief as Felton Takes AWS CFO Role

Amazon.com Inc.’s operations chief is moving to the company’s cloud unit, making way for a career logistics veteran.

John Felton, who has led Amazon’s worldwide operations unit since June 2022, will become chief financial officer of Amazon Web Services, the company said Thursday in a blog published on its website. Felton, who previously worked in finance roles at Amazon, will be succeeded by Udit Madan, who had been running the company’s delivery services teams.

Madan started at Amazon in 2008 as a software development engineer, and subsequently led teams working on robotics and automation in warehouses ...