AWS’ Teresa Carlson to join Splunk 2 hours ago Teresa Carlson, vice president of AWS worldwide public sector, leaves Amazon to become president and chief growth officer of Splunk. (Splunk) WASHINGTON — Teresa Carlson, the public face and founder of Amazon Web Services’ public sector business, is joining San Francisco-based data platform company Splunk, her new company announced Monday. Carlson, AWS vice president of worldwide public sector since 2010, will become Splunk’s president and chief growth officer. In that newly created position, she will work on Splunk’s business transformation by advancing the company’s cloud-first initiatives and identifying new markets. She helped build AWS’ public business into a giant that provides cloud services to more than 6,500 government agencies. Under her leadership, AWS built up national security credentials by providing cloud services up to the top secret level and becoming a major cloud provider for the Defense Department and intelligence community.