Andy Jassy joined Amazon in 1997 during its early years and founded the company’s cloud business, which contributed significantly to its top line. Jassy eventually became CEO in 2021, and he was awarded shares in Amazon along the way as he was promoted.
Here’s a closer look at how much of Amazon’s stock Jassy owns, and how he accumulated his shares over the years.
How much of Amazon does Andy Jassy own?
Andy Jassy owned 2.3 million shares, directly and indirectly, according to an August 2026 SEC filing. That equates to 0.02% of the company’s 10.79 billion shares outstanding. Jassy’s shares were valued at about $585 million, based on a mid-October 2026 share price of $254.76.
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Is Andy Jassy the largest individual shareholder of Amazon?
Andy Jassy isn’t the biggest shareholder of Amazon. That title belongs to Jassy’s boss and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who owns more than 884 million shares, directly and indirectly, according to an August 2026 SEC filing. Bezos’s shares equate to an 8.2% stake in the company.
How & when did Andy Jassy accumulate his Amazon stock?
Andy Jassy first joined the marketing team at Amazon in 1997, around the time the company went public. In the early 2000s, he worked closely with Bezos, and in 2006, Jassy helped establish Amazon Web Services, serving as senior vice president and becoming the division’s CEO in 2016.
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How much stock does Andy Jassy get as part of his compensation package?
As Jassy climbed the company’s ranks, he was awarded shares, stock options, and restricted stock units (RSUs). In 2016, his first year as CEO of AWS, Jassy was paid a salary of $175,000, but his compensation, including stock awards, totaled $35.6 million, Amazon’s 2017 proxy statement showed.
Jassy succeeded Bezos as Amazon’s CEO in 2021. In 2025, his salary was $365,000, but his total compensation reached almost $2.1 million, according to Amazon’s 2026 proxy statement.
At the end of 2025, Jassy’s unvested stock units, or RSUs, amounted to 1.049 million shares.
Amazon’s largest institutional shareholders
Institutional ownership in Amazon accounts for almost 76% of the company’s 10.786 billion shares, according to data compiled by Nasdaq as of mid-October 2026. The Vanguard Group held nearly the same number of shares as Bezos, owning 845.4 million, equivalent to about a 7.8% stake.
The next two biggest institutional shareholders were BlackRock (6.9%) and Vanguard Capital Management (5.9%).
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