Amazon Web Services Executive Killed in Plane Crash Reports

Web Host Industry Review (Dec 5 2011)

1. According to a post on Dave Ohara’s Green Data Center Blog, Amazon Web Services executive Thomas Phillips was killed tragically in a small-plane crash in Lake Huron late Saturday in northern Michgan, during a short flight to a family home on Mackinac Island. The flight, carrying the 52 year old Phillips, and 29-year-old Joseph Pann Jr., went down Saturday night. The wreckage was discovered by the coast guard, after following an emergency locator beacon, at about noon on Sunday. According to Phillips’ LinkedIn resume, in his role as director and general manager at Amazon Web Services, he ran the Elastic Compute Cloud piece of the company’s enormously popular cloud infrastructure, having joined the company in January of this year. (Read Full Article)

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