Amazon founder Jeff Bezos charms AWS staff in Sydney

Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos has met with star-struck Australian staff after flying in to Sydney this week.

Social media has shown the famous internet commerce pioneer having a laugh as he met staff at the Sydney office of Amazon Web Services.

"Jeff Bezos dropped by the AWS Sydney office today, by all accounts he is an extremely humble man, leads by example!" posted AWS technical account manager David Murray on LinkedIn.

The cloud giant is holding its AWS Summit in Sydney next week, though a company spokesperson denied that Bezos would make an appearance at the conference.

Jeff Bezos meeting AWS Sydney staff [source: LinkedIn]

Bezos, worth an estimated AU$73 billion, is apparently on a tour of several sites on this side of the world, with even the Asia-Pacific boss of AWS in awe of his encounter.

"What an impressive person! Jeff, thanks for the time today at lunch," AWS Asia-Pacific managing director Shane Owenby, based in Singapore, posted last week.

Bezos recently celebrated in a letter to shareholders Amazon's achievement in becoming the fastest company ever to reach US$100 billion in annual sales. This year AWS is on track to bring in US$9.6 billion.