Tal Saraf is the General Manager of Amazon CloudFront, AWS’s pay-as-go content distribution service, and Amazon Route 53, AWS’s DNS service. In this role, Tal is responsible for the overall development, management and product direction of Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53.

Prior to joining Amazon Web Services, he held a variety of technical leadership roles over sixteen years with the Microsoft Corporation, working on and releasing products and services including Speech Server, MyMSN, Server and Desktop ActiveSync, TaxSaver and Internet Explorer.  He was a managing consultant for a practice office of Microsoft Consulting Services focused on ASPs and Telco companies.

A graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic, he holds a B.S. in Computer and Systems Engineering as well as an M.B.A. in Finance and Management from New York University - Stern Business School.