Werner Vogels
Chief Technology Officer of Amazon.com; co-author of the 2007 Dynamo paper
Werner Vogels is the Chief Technology Officer of Amazon.com. Vogels joined Amazon in 2004 from Cornell University, where Vogels was a distributed systems researcher, and has written many articles on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing. Vogels is a co-author of the 2007 ACM SOSP paper on Dynamo, the highly available key-value store used by some of Amazon's core services, and writes the All Things Distributed blog on building scalable and robust distributed systems, with posts through September 2026.1234
Work
Dynamo: Amazon's highly available key-value store (external site: amazon.science)Published research
Co-author of the 2007 ACM SOSP paper, which presents Dynamo, a key-value store that keeps Amazon services available during failures by relaxing consistency and using object versioning with application-assisted conflict resolution.4
All Things Distributed (blog) (external site: allthingsdistributed.com)
Writes the blog, subtitled "Werner Vogels on building scalable and robust distributed systems"; recent posts include ones on scalable control planes and DuckDB.2
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.
- Distributed systems researcher, Cornell University1
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