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Werner Vogels

CTO at Amazon

Also known as Dr. Werner Vogels

Amazon CTO who discusses scaling, engineering culture, and AWS.

1 Talk3 Facts3 Sources

Key facts

Roles
Amazon, CTO
Previously
Stratus
Cornell University, research scientist

Career

  1. Amazoncurrentas of Nov 2018
    CTO
    Unverified1 source
  2. Stratuspast
    Unverified1 source
  3. Cornell Universitypast
    research scientist
    Unverified1 source

Timeline 3

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How we verify
20183 events
  1. reported 2018-11Career
    Werner Vogels previously at Stratus
    “it was sold to a company called Stratus” 0:50
    Unverified1 source· Talk
  2. as of Nov 2018Career
    Werner Vogels is CTO at Amazon
    “by January I became the CTO” 6:28
    Unverified1 source· Talk
  3. reported 2018-11Career
    Werner Vogels previously at Cornell University
    research scientist
    “I’d been a research scientist at Cornell for 10 years” 0:50
    Unverified1 source· Talk

Talks 1

56:27
A Conversation
Werner Vogels

Werner Vogels traces how Amazon’s scaling challenges shaped its engineering culture, service architecture, and the creation of AWS. He explains how independent teams, customer feedback, working backwards, and small initial feature sets help Amazon build products while adapting to real usage. He also argues that cloud services can free teams from infrastructure work, but that security and cost choices need to be built into development from the start. The talk closes with advice for startups to choose architectures and cloud services that fit the kind of company they want to build.

Nov 11, 2018· 56 min 0:00