# Matt Garman (slim) > Matt Garman is CEO at Amazon Web Services. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory, Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Amazon Bedrock model customisation, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon Location Service, Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings, Amazon Polly, Amazon S3, Amazon SES, Amazon SNS, Amazon Textract, Amazon Transcribe, Amazon Translate, AWS End User Messaging, AWS MCP Servers, AWS Secrets Manager, Kiro CLI and Strands Decider 2B on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles. - Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/matt-garman/index.md (~3,250 tokens) · this version ~3,030 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/matt-garman/index.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/matt-garman/ - Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-10-28 - Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data) CEO, Amazon Web Services. ## What Matt builds - [Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agentcore-code-interpreter.md), graded BB, 71.4/100, in Code execution sandboxes. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter is AWS's managed sandbox for running agent-written Python, JavaScript and TypeScript. Each session is a dedicated microVM, reached through the AWS API, the AgentCore SDKs or an MCP server. CEO, Amazon Web Services, researched 2026-10-28. - [Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agentcore-identity.md), graded BB, 75.1/100, in Agent auth & delegated access. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity is an AWS service that gives agents workload identities, stores OAuth tokens and API keys in a token vault, and runs OAuth flows so agents can call third-party services for users or for themselves. CEO, Amazon Web Services, researched 2026-10-28. - [Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agentcore-memory.md), graded A, 79.7/100, in Agent memory. Managed memory service for AI agents on AWS. It stores conversation events as short-term memory and extracts facts, preferences, summaries and episodes into searchable long-term records, through the AWS API, SDKs and an MCP server. CEO, Amazon Web Services, researched 2026-10-28. - [Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agentcore-web-search.md), graded BB, 74.3/100, in Web search APIs. Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is AWS's managed web search for agents, backed by an Amazon-operated index and knowledge graph. It runs as a connector on an AgentCore Gateway and is called as an MCP tool. CEO, Amazon Web Services, researched 2026-10-28. - [Amazon Bedrock model customisation](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-bedrock-customization.md), graded BB, 76.1/100, in Fine-tuning. Managed supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement fine-tuning and distillation of Amazon Nova, Meta Llama and selected open-weight models on Amazon Bedrock, run as asynchronous jobs through the Bedrock control-plane API, the AWS SDKs and CLI, or OpenAI-compatible endpoints. CEO, Amazon Web Services, researched 2026-10-28. - [Amazon Bedrock Guardrails](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-bedrock-guardrails.md), graded BB, 75.7/100, in Guardrails & safety filters. Configurable guardrail policies (content filters with a prompt-attack category, denied topics, word filters, PII and regex filters, contextual grounding, Automated Reasoning checks) applied to any model through the ApplyGuardrail API, or inline through InvokeGuardrailChecks. CEO, Amazon Web Services, researched 2026-10-28. - [Amazon EventBridge](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-eventbridge.md), graded BB, 75.1/100, in Event delivery & webhooks. Amazon EventBridge is AWS's serverless event bus. Applications, AWS services and SaaS partners publish events, and the bus routes them to targets such as Lambda functions, SQS queues and HTTPS endpoints. It includes Pipes, a scheduler and a schema registry. CEO, Amazon Web Services, researched 2026-10-28. - [Amazon Location Service](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-location.md), graded BB, 76.5/100, in Maps, geocoding & places. Amazon Location Service is AWS's API for geocoding, place search, routing and map tiles, with geofences and device tracking. Agents call regional REST endpoints with an API key or IAM credentials, or through the AWS SDKs and CLI. CEO, Amazon Web Services, researched 2026-10-28. - [Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-nova-embeddings.md), graded BB, 75.3/100, in Embeddings & rerankers. Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings is an AWS model on Amazon Bedrock that turns text, images, document images, video and audio into vectors in one space, at 256, 384, 1024 or 3072 dimensions, through synchronous and asynchronous calls. CEO, Amazon Web Services, researched 2026-10-28. - [Amazon Polly](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-polly.md), graded BB, 73.6/100, in Text-to-speech. AWS's speech synthesis API with four engines (standard, neural, long-form and generative) and about 110 voices in 42 languages and variants. CEO, Amazon Web Services, researched 2026-10-28. - [Amazon S3](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-s3.md), graded A, 78.2/100, in File storage & sharing. AWS object storage for files, backups and application data, accessed through an API. CEO, Amazon Web Services, researched 2026-10-28. - [Amazon SES](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-ses.md), graded BB, 73.6/100, in Email delivery APIs. AWS's email service for sending and receiving at scale, over the SES v2 API or SMTP, with templates, configuration sets, receipt rules and deliverability tooling. CEO, Amazon Web Services, researched 2026-10-28. - [Amazon SNS](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-sns.md), graded BB, 72.9/100, in Notifications. Amazon SNS is AWS's publish and subscribe messaging service. A message published to a topic, or directly to a device or phone number, goes out as mobile push, SMS, plain-text email, HTTPS calls or to SQS queues and Lambda functions. CEO, Amazon Web Services, researched 2026-10-28. - [Amazon Textract](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-textract.md), graded BB, 73.7/100, in Document parsing & extraction. Amazon Textract is AWS's document OCR and analysis API. It reads printed and handwritten text from scans and PDFs and returns tables, form fields, layout elements, answers to queries, and invoice, receipt and identity document fields as JSON. CEO, Amazon Web Services, researched 2026-10-28. - [Amazon Transcribe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-transcribe.md), graded BB, 75.3/100, in Speech-to-text. Amazon Transcribe is AWS's speech-to-text API, with batch jobs that read audio from Amazon S3 and real-time streaming over HTTP/2 or WebSocket, signed with IAM credentials. CEO, Amazon Web Services, researched 2026-10-28. - [Amazon Translate](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-translate.md), graded B, 69.6/100, in Translation. AWS's neural translation API across 75 languages. CEO, Amazon Web Services, researched 2026-10-28. - [AWS End User Messaging](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/aws-end-user-messaging.md), graded BB, 74.5/100, in Messaging APIs. AWS's messaging service for SMS, MMS, RCS, WhatsApp, voice and push, formerly the channel APIs of Amazon Pinpoint. Agents call the SMS and Voice v2 API or the Social Messaging API with IAM-signed requests, through the AWS CLI or SDKs. CEO, Amazon Web Services, researched 2026-10-28. - [AWS MCP Servers](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/aws-mcp-servers.md), graded B, 63.3/100, in Cloud & infrastructure. AWS MCP servers for documentation, infrastructure, operations and development. Includes local servers and a hosted knowledge server. CEO, Amazon Web Services, researched 2026-10-28. - [AWS Secrets Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/aws-secrets-manager.md), graded BB, 77.6/100, in Secrets & credential vaults. Managed secrets store priced per secret and per API call, with IAM for access, KMS for encryption, CloudTrail for audit, cross-region replication and rotation either managed (RDS, Aurora, DocumentDB, Redshift) or by a Lambda function you own. CEO, Amazon Web Services, researched 2026-10-28. - [Kiro CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kiro-cli.md), graded C, 60.8/100, in Agent harnesses. AWS's coding agent for the terminal and the successor to the Amazon Q Developer CLI. It runs interactive chat, non-interactive runs for pipelines with an API key, MCP servers and an Agent Client Protocol server for editors. CEO, Amazon Web Services, researched 2026-10-28. - [Strands Decider 2B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/strands-decider.md), graded C, 61.5/100, in Decision models. Strands Decider 2B is an open-weight decision model from AWS's Strands Labs, released on 1 October 2026 under Apache-2.0. It answers typed yes or no, choice and score questions with probabilities, and runs locally from a Python package. CEO, Amazon Web Services, researched 2026-10-28. ## Works with - [Andy Jassy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/andy-jassy/), President and CEO, Amazon - [Jeff Bezos](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jeff-bezos/), Founder and executive chairman, Amazon - [Vivek Singh](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/vivek-singh/), Leads product management for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore - [Werner Vogels](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/werner-vogels/), CTO, Amazon ## Questions ### Who is Matt Garman? Matt Garman is CEO at Amazon Web Services. ### What does Amazon Web Services, Amazon Web Services (AWS Labs), Amazon Web Services (Strands Agents) make? Anchor Terminal lists Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory, Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Amazon Bedrock model customisation, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon Location Service, Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings, Amazon Polly, Amazon S3, Amazon SES, Amazon SNS, Amazon Textract, Amazon Transcribe, Amazon Translate, AWS End User Messaging, AWS MCP Servers, AWS Secrets Manager, Kiro CLI and Strands Decider 2B from Amazon Web Services, Amazon Web Services (AWS Labs), Amazon Web Services (Strands Agents). ### How are Matt's tools graded? Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter is graded BB, 71.4 out of 100; Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity is graded BB, 75.1 out of 100; Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory is graded A, 79.7 out of 100; Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is graded BB, 74.3 out of 100; Amazon Bedrock model customisation is graded BB, 76.1 out of 100; Amazon Bedrock Guardrails is graded BB, 75.7 out of 100; Amazon EventBridge is graded BB, 75.1 out of 100; Amazon Location Service is graded BB, 76.5 out of 100; Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings is graded BB, 75.3 out of 100; Amazon Polly is graded BB, 73.6 out of 100; Amazon S3 is graded A, 78.2 out of 100; Amazon SES is graded BB, 73.6 out of 100; Amazon SNS is graded BB, 72.9 out of 100; Amazon Textract is graded BB, 73.7 out of 100; Amazon Transcribe is graded BB, 75.3 out of 100; Amazon Translate is graded B, 69.6 out of 100; AWS End User Messaging is graded BB, 74.5 out of 100; AWS MCP Servers is graded B, 63.3 out of 100; AWS Secrets Manager is graded BB, 77.6 out of 100; Kiro CLI is graded C, 60.8 out of 100; Strands Decider 2B is graded C, 61.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist. ## Sources - https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivek-singh-199971b9/ - https://ir.aboutamazon.com/officers-and-directors/person-details/default.aspx?PersonId=19954 - https://lexfridman.com/jeff-bezos - https://aws.amazon.com/ - https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/ - https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/?nc1=f_m - https://www.linkedin.com/in/madhu-kavikondala-5461a44/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamiedool/ - https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?keywords=%22EventBridge%22%20%22Product%22 - https://www.linkedin.com/in/assaji-aluwihare/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/raju-po - https://aws.amazon.com/translate/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/akshayaggarwal21/ - https://kiro.dev/ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_(company) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services - https://strandsagents.com/ These are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched.