Werner Vogels

VP, CTO at Amazon.com, Inc

Werner Vogels is Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com where he is responsible for driving the company's technology vision, which is to continuously enhance the innovation on behalf of Amazon's customers at a global scale.

Prior to joining Amazon, he worked as a research scientist at Cornell University where he was a principal investigator in several research projects that targeted the scalability and robustness of mission-critical enterprise computing systems. He has held positions of VP of Technology and Chief Technology Officer in companies that handled the transition of academic technology into industry.

Vogels holds a PhD from Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and has authored close to 80 articles for journals and conferences, most of them on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing.

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Video: Strata 2011: Data Without Limits
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Strata 2011: Data Without Limits with the CTO at Amazon.com.


Video: High Performance Computing on AWS
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The CTO, Werner Vogels, and Sr Business Development Manager, Deepak Singh, at Amazon Web Services discuss how businesses and researchers can easily fulfill their high performance computational requirements with the added benefit of ad-hoc provisioning and pay-as-you-go pricing.


Video: Cloud Computing is Enabling Innovation and Faster Time to Market
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The CTO at Amazon.com talks about how cloud computing is helping boost business in this market.


Video: Reality & The Cloud
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Building on massive regional broadband and access initiatives, individuals and organizations now have ample opportunities to access a continuously growing variety of online services that are based on cloud computing.


Video: Computing Remotely
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Amazon.com CTO, Werner Vogels, talks about cloud computing, the Indian market, and the economics of free services.


Video: The CTO at Amazon Gives Advice for the Future Iteem Entrepreneurs
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Werner Vogels, CTO at Amazon.com, gives advice to future entrepreneurs on how to innovate on top of other services.


Video: Gaining Altitude Part 2
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The Chairman & CEO at Salesforce.com, Marc Benioff, and the VP & CTO at Amazon.com, Werner Vogels, discuss the direction of cloud computing at the Google Atmosphere event.


Video: Cloud Capability: Why Customers are Choosing Cloud Computing
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The CTO at Amazon.com discusses why customers are choosing cloud computing at the Google Atmosphere event.


Video: Google Atmosphere Panel: The Perfect Storm
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This panel of Cloud Computing professionals answers some key questions on this new emerging business model, including: Why now? Is business ready? Do new forms of collaboration increase productivity and innovation? & If it's so self evident, why hasn't everyone done this already? Panelists: Dr Wener Vogels - CTO, Amazon.com; Nicholas Carr - Author, The Big Switch; Paul Daugherty - Chief Technology Architect, Accenture; Dr Carsten Sorensen – LSE


Video: Clouds Over Washington: The Cloud and How it Can Serve Government
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The CTO at Amazon, Werner Vogels, and the GSA's CIO, Casey Coleman, discuss the potential of cloud computing in government at the Gov 2.0 conference.


Article: Seamlessly Extending the Data Center - Introducing Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
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From young businesses and established enterprises to hospitals and government agencies, all are equally enthusiastic cloud customers for whom IT infrastructure has changed forever. Now, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) allows customers to seamlessly extend their IT infrastructure into the cloud while maintaining the levels required for their enterprise management tools to do their work.


Video: Fireside Chat with Greg Papadopoulos & Werner Vogels at GigaOM Structure
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Former keynote speakers Greg Papadopoulos, CTO and EVP, Research and Development at Sun Microsystems and Werner Vogels, VP and CTO at Amazon.com, return to share their thoughts on the rise of Cloud Computing and what direction they see Amazon and Sun leading the evolution of the Cloud Computing industry and the opportunities it generates.


Article: CTO Roundtable: Cloud Computing
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Contributors: Werner Vogels & Lew Tucker
How can companies take advantage of the new opportunities Cloud Computing provides? A CTO Roundtable discussion to give practitioners useful advice on how to evaluate cloud computing for their organizations. Five current thought leaders discuss the potential of cloud computing to solve business problems. They explore some of the basic principles behind cloud computing and highlight some of the key issues and opportunities that arise when computing moves from in-house to the cloud. Moderator: Mache Creeger, Principal at Emergent Technology Associates Panelists: Wener Vogels – CTO at Amazon.com; Greg Olsen - CTO & Founder of Coghead; Lew Tucker – CTO of Cloud Computing at Sun Microsystems; Greg Badros - Sr Director, Engineering at Google; Geir Ramleth – CIO at Bechtel; Steve Bourne - CTO at El Dorado Ventures


Video: How Cloud Platforms Change the Game for ISVs
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Contributors: Werner Vogels , Steve Lucas & Mani Gill
Virtualization technologies and the subsequent emergence of cloud computing have changed the game for independent software vendors (ISVs), opening up a bewildering array of hosting, PaaS and SaaS options. This keynote panel brings together top executives from the leading platform providers to answer questions about what the evolving cloud landscape means for ISVs, examining the impact of utility provisioning on business models, development cycles, channel partnerships and customer retentionships. Moderator: John Chapman - Business Development Director, IT Europa Panelists: Mani Gill - VP, OnDemand, SAP Business Objects Division; Steve Lucas - SVP, Force.com, Marketing & ISV Recruitment, Salesforce.com; Treb Ryan - CEO, Opsource, Inc; Werner Vogels - VP & CTO, Amazon.com


Video: Building Confidence in The Cloud
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Trust is the biggest obstacle to winning mainstream acceptance of cloud computing. Enterprises are not going to entrust business critical applications to the cloud unless they feel confident that providers won't let them down on a range of metrics including availability, performance, governance, security, privacy and sustainability. With a set of short presentations followed by a Q&A discussion, this panel looks at what SaaS and cloud providers can and are doing to enable and assure enterprise-class cloud computing. Moderator: Alexis Richardson - CEO & Co-Founder, Rabbit Technologies Ltd Presenters: Kevin O'Brien - Director, SaaS Strategy & Programs, Oracle Corporation; Pascal Walschots - Communications Sector, Microsoft EMEA; Werner Vogels - VP & CTO, Amazon.com


Presentation: Building Confidence in The Cloud PDF
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Slides from Werner Vogels presentation at SIIA OnDemand Europe.


Video: Cloud Computing Power Panel Live from Times Square
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Contributors: Werner Vogels , Hal Stern & John Engates
The panel includes Werner Vogels from Amazon.com, John Engates from Rackspace, Rod Fonticella from Booze Allen Hamilton and Hal Stern from Sun Microsystems.


Video: Dr Werner Vogels Interviewed by Kara Swisher at LeWeb 08
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Dr Werner Vogels Interviewed by Kara Swisher at LeWeb 08


Video: Dr Werner Vogels Explains Cloud Computing to TiburonTV.
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Dr Werner Vogels explains Cloud Computing to TiburonTV.


Video: A Head in the Cloud: The Power of Infrastructure as a Service
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A lecture by Dr. Werner Vogels for the Stanford University Computer Systems Colloquium. This presentation reviews some of the lessons learned from building one of the world's largest distributed systems; Amazon.com. Dr. Vogels focuses on state management which is one of the dominating factors in the scalability, reliability, performance and cost-effectiveness of the overall system.


Video: Werner Vogels on the Future of Datacenter Virtualization
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InfoWorld's Ephraim Schwartz talks to Werner Vogels about the future of datacenter virtualization.


All Things Distributed
Werner Vogels' weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.
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  • Amazon Redshift and Designing for Security
  • May 22 2013
    It’s been a few months since I last wrote about Amazon Redshift and I thought I’d update you on some of the things we are hearing from customers. Since we launched, we’ve been adding over a hundred customers a week and are well over a thousand today. That’s pretty stunning. As far as I know, it’s unprecedented for this space. We’ve enabled our customers to save tens of millions of dollar ...
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  • DynamoDB Keeps Getting Better (and cheaper!)
  • May 15 2013
    We love getting feedback so we can deliver the improvements and new features that really matter to our customers. You can see from the pace at which we roll out new functionality that teams across AWS take this very seriously. One of the teams that’s iterating quickly is DynamoDB. They recently launched Local Secondary Indexes and today they are re ...
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  • Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Using continuations to implement thread management and communication in operating systems
  • May 10 2013
    I have returned from a great series of AWS Summits in NYC and in Europe so it is time to get back to some weekend reading. During the nineties much operating systems research focussed on microkernels, which resulted in a large collection of prototype systems: Mach 3.0, L3/ ...
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  • Expanding the Cloud: Faster, More Flexible Queries with DynamoDB
  • April 17 2013
    Today, I’m thrilled to announce that we have expanded the query capabilities of DynamoDB. We call the newest capability Local Secondary Indexes (LSI). While DynamoDB already allows you to perform low-latency queries based on your table’s primary key, even at tremendous scale, LSI will now give you the ability to perform fast queries against other attributes (or columns) in you ...
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  • Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Join Processing in Relational Databases
  • April 12 2013
    Joins are one of the fundamental relational database query operations. It is very hard to implement the join operation efficiently as there any many unknowns in the execution of the operation. In the early days much relation database research was done in understanding the complexity of performing joins, what exactly impacted their performance and which approach performed better under which co ...
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  • Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Practical Applications of Triggers and Constraints: Successes and Lingering Issues
  • April 05 2013
    At the end of the 80's Ceri and Widom were researching the fundamentals of integrity constraints in databases. In 2000 they were invited by the VLDB conference to review 10 years of work around Constraints and Triggers with an eye on the practical application of both abstractions. The resulting paper gives a good overview of the fundamentals of both concepts. ...
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  • Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Principles of Transaction-Oriented Database Recovery
  • March 29 2013
    I have been reading mainly newer papers in the beginning of this year, but it is time to get back to the basics and start reading some more historical papers again. From the time when researchers and engineers where laying the foundations for our current systems. A good early paper to start again is the Survey that Härder en Reuter did on Database Recovery in 1983. ...
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  • The Netflix OSS Cloud Prize
  • March 20 2013
    Netflix has over the years become one of the absolute best engineering powerhouses for building cloud-native applications. At AWS we are very proud to be their infrastructure partner and every day we learn from how they use our cloud services. Many of the observations I talk about in my “21st Century Application Architectures” presentation come from seeing Netflix architects at work. ...
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  • Elastic Beanstalk a la Node
  • March 11 2013
    I spent a lot of time talking to AWS developers, many working in the gaming and mobile space, and most of them have been finding Node.js well suited for their web applications. With its asynchronous, event-driven programming model, Node.js allows these developers to handle a large number of concurrent connections with low latencies. These developers typically use EC2 instances combined with one of our database services to create web services u ...
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  • DynamoDB One Year Later: Bigger, Better, and 85% Cheaper…
  • March 07 2013
    Time passes very quickly around here and I hadn’t realized until recently that over a year has gone by since we launched DynamoDB. As I sat down with the DynamoDB team to review our progress over the last year, I realized that DynamoDB had surpassed even my own expectations for how easily applications could achieve massive scale and high availability with DynamoDB. Many of our customers have, with ...
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  • Expanding the Cloud - Introducing AWS OpsWorks, a Powerful Application Management Solution
  • February 19 2013
    Today Amazon Web Services launched AWS OpsWorks, a flexible application management solution with automation tools that enable you to model and control your applications and their supporting infrastructure. OpsWorks allows you to manage the complete application lifecycle, including resource provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, software updates, monitoring, and access contro ...
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  • Amazon Redshift and Designing for Resilience
  • February 15 2013
    As you may remember from our announcement at re: Invent in November 2012, Amazon Redshift is a fast and powerful, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service that delivers fast query performance at less than one tenth the cost of most traditional data warehouse systems. I’ve been eagerly waiting for Amazon Redshift’s launch since we announced the service preview at re: Invent a ...
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  • Expanding the Cloud: The Amazon Elastic Transcoder
  • February 11 2013
    While I was returning from an exciting time in New Orleans watching the Super Bowl, AWS launched a very cool, brand new service: Amazon Elastic Transcoder. Amazon Elastic Transcoder is designed to be very easy to use, scalable and cost-effective video transcoding in the cloud. Jeff Barr did an excellent job running through the ...
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  • Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Epidemics
  • January 25 2013
    My paper to read this weekend was the Alan Demers' seminal paper on epidemic techniques for database replication. I realized that in 2004, before my Amazon days, I already wrote a blog post about the fundamental publications in the area of epidemics, so this seems like a good moment to revisit that with updated links, etc. History of Epidemics In the past 6-8 years we have been usi ...
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  • My Best Christmas Present – Root Domain Support for Amazon S3 Website Hosting
  • December 27 2012
    I have been a big fan of the Amazon S3 Static Website Hosting feature since its launch and this blog happily is being served from it. S3 is not only a highly reliable and available storage service but also one of the most powerful web serving engines that exists today. By storing your website in Amazon S3, you suddenly no longer have to worry about scaling ...
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  • An Album for Each Year - 2012 Version
  • December 22 2012
    About 5 years ago I joined a challenge to list "a favorite album for every year of your life." The challenge has two restrictions: only one album per year and there can be no repeats of artists. I added for myself the restriction that I should actually own the album, which restricts the set to choose from significantly and also makes for some ...
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  • The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012
  • December 19 2012
    After the AWS re: Invent conference I spent two weeks in Europe for the last customer visits of the year. I have since returned and am now in New York City enjoying a few days of winding down the last activities of the year before spending the holidays here with family. Do not expect too many blog posts or twitter updates. Although there are still a few very exciting AWS news updates to ...
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  • Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Sparse Partitions
  • November 30 2012
    The amazing AWS re: Invent conference completed last night and I am on my way to Europe for a last visit to customers this year. I am carrying with me a more theoretical paper on the principles of distributed computing: Sparse Partitions by Awerbug and Peleg. It deals with the failure of control if networks grow larger and presents several solutions based on ...
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  • Expanding the Cloud – Announcing Amazon Redshift, a Petabyte-scale Data Warehouse Service
  • November 28 2012
    Today, we are excited to announce the limited preview of Amazon Redshift, a fast and powerful, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. Amazon Redshift enables customers to obtain dramatically increased query performance when analyzing datasets ranging in size from hundreds of gigabytes to a petabyte or more, using the same SQL-based business intelligence tools they use tod ...
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