Simon Elisha, the first technical recruit at Amazon Web Services in 2011, has resigned to take up a role at big data and platform-as-a-service vendor Pivotal.
Elisha has been appointed Pivotal's CTO and senior manager of field engineering, Australia & New Zealand.
Before joining AWS as principal solution architect in June 2011, Elisha also had senior technical stints at Cisco, Hitachi Data Systems and Veritas.
In a blog post, he said originally joined AWS from Cisco "to help customers learn how to take advantage of cloud computing and take advantage of what it can do to make development more agile and effective".
"The end result was better support for business groups. During this time, I created a number of relevant patents. However, I cannot talk about any of them, but some of them are very cool."
Speaking to CRN, Elisha said: "I had a great time at AWS but could not pass up the opportunity that Pivotal represents, so yes, I resigned, but left on good terms."
Amazon Web Services declined to comment on Elisha's departure.
AWS went live with two availability zones in Australia in 2011, making Asia-Pacific its ninth region
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