The New Zealand arm of cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) has undergone management changes, with country manager Tim Dacombe-Bird moving over to security vendor Wiz.
Dacombe-Bird will take on the role as enterprise account executive at Wiz, which was nearly acquired by Google last year, for US$23 billion, but decided to go for a company float instead.
He will be based at the Wellington office of Wiz.
Dacombe-Bird spent 11 and a half years at AWS, as the cloud company's regional sales and country manager.
Prior to joining AWS, Dacombe-Bird worked as VMware's regional manager for New Zealand.
He is replaced as the New Zealand Country manager by Manuel Bohnet, who shifted from AWS Europe, Middle East and Africa in Germany.
Bohnet was head of industry strategy there, and is another AWS veteran, having spent nearly eight years with the company in various senior roles.
AWS said its New Zealand region situated in Auckland with three availability zones would be ready and open by early 2024.
As of writing, the Auckland region is still marked as "coming soon" with AWS plans reported by local media as being stalled due to environmental issues not being resolved.
AWS managing director of Australia and New Zealand, Rianne van Veldhuizen, said in December last year that the region will launch in 2025.
Energy company Vector and telco One NZ have signed up with for the Auckland region, along with ASX-listed Datacom, an AWS premier consulting partner that said it would leverage the local cloud instance.
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