About

Alexis Appollonia Robinson

Principal, Product Management at Amazon Stores. She builds the compliance products sellers and security teams can actually run.

Fifteen years of taking regulated technology from a policy on paper to a platform people use.

The current work is Compliance Seller Experience at Amazon Stores: seller education, global expansion, listing, and compliance, across the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, and Japan. Before that, she led U.S. government security and compliance at AWS, including the program behind FedRAMP, the Department of Defense cloud requirements, DFARS, ITAR, CMMC, and MARS-E.

She co-authored the FedRAMP Authorization Act, enacted with the National Defense Authorization Act in December 2022. In November 2023 she published the AWS Best Practices Framework for Generative AI.

Now

Amazon Stores

Principal, Product Management, Compliance Seller Experience. Since September 2024.

Scale

15+ years

Product, compliance, and security at Amazon, AWS, Ernst & Young, and CGI Federal.

Credentials

CISA, PMP, MBA

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate. Accounting and information systems, University of Maryland.

On stage

20+ AWS events

re:Invent and re:Inforce. GRC track leader, 2022–2024. ISACA speaker, 2018–2025.

The path

Where the work has been.

2024 — Present

Principal, Product Management

Amazon Stores · Compliance Seller Experience

The portfolio covers the compliance platform sellers meet when they list, expand, and stay in market. Know Your Customer verification fell from 34.3 days to 18.8. The same body of work preserved $544 million in gross merchandise sales.

2023 — 2024

Senior Manager, Industry Specialist

Amazon Web Services · Security Assurance Engineering

Product strategy for AWS security compliance tooling, so engineering teams could see audit activity, regulatory thresholds, and compliance posture as they built. She published the AWS Best Practices Framework for Generative AI in November 2023.

2021 — 2023

Head of U.S. Government Security & Compliance

Amazon Web Services

She led a 40-person assessment, continuous monitoring, and incident response organization for U.S. government cloud workloads, and co-authored the FedRAMP Authorization Act.

2019 — 2021

Government Assessments Program Manager

Amazon Web Services

Vision, scope, and timelines for U.S. government security assessments. Liaison to the FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board and the Defense Information Systems Agency.

2012 — 2019

Senior Manager, Information Technology Risk and Assurance

Ernst & Young

Federal IT assurance and cybersecurity assessments. Sales from the work reached more than $125 million over two years. Three promotions in seven years.

2010 — 2012

Consultant, Business and Technology Solutions

CGI Federal

Production and accounting technology support for government agency systems.

Beyond the role

Classroom, boards, and the show.

Since 2024

Adjunct professor

California State University, San Bernardino. Introduction to Cloud Fundamentals and Security, and Cyber Analytics and Visualization.

Since 2020

Boards

BESN X Community, Empow(H)er Cybersecurity, and iThriveHer.

Monthly

Resilience By Design

Co-host with Dr. Cynthia Sutherland. The human side of cyber, technology, leadership, and resilience.

Portraits

The face of the work.

Alexis Appollonia Robinson, standing against a red backdrop
Close portrait of Alexis Appollonia Robinson
Alexis Appollonia Robinson in green
Alexis Appollonia Robinson with arms crossed
Alexis Appollonia Robinson seated against a red backdrop
Alexis Appollonia Robinson seated in a green dress
Alexis Appollonia Robinson with arms open
Alexis Appollonia Robinson seated, looking aside
Alexis Appollonia Robinson smiling and pointing

Off the clock

Maryland, games, and the shows.

She lives in Maryland with her husband and son. Off the clock she plays video games, and watches Only Murders in the Building, Real Housewives, Demon Slayer, and Abbott Elementary.

On the record

Speaking and the work behind it.

  • re:Invent and re:Inforce speaker. GRC track leader at re:Inforce, 2022–2024.
  • ISACA speaker, 2018–2025.
  • Co-author of the AWS Audit Manager generative AI security best practices framework, published November 2023.
  • Co-author of the FedRAMP Authorization Act, enacted with the National Defense Authorization Act in December 2022, and work on FISMA reform.
  • Managed FedRAMP authorization and continuous monitoring for more than 100 AWS cloud services, 2019–2022.