
Werner Vogels
@werner
CTO @ Amazon
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http://www.allthingsdistributed.com 21-12-2006 15:12:02
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Congrats to Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton for receiving the 2024 Association for Computing Machinery Turing Award. They introduced the main ideas, constructed the mathematical foundations, and developed the algorithms for reinforcement learning. awards.acm.org/about/2024-tur…


On #PiDay (Amazon S3's 19th birthday), Andrew Warfield takes us through S3's evolution from simple object store to sophisticated data platform. A fascinating look at how customer feedback shapes our services and how we maintain simplicity at massive scale. allthingsdistributed.com/2025/03/in-s3-…

The new Frugal Architect podcast features Watch Duty. A tech-first non-profit that proves you just need the right tools to achieve your mission. From a handful of volunteers to millions of users across 22 states, their choices speak volumes. thefrugalarchitect.com/architects/joh…









'Don't be Frupid' - @WBD's approach to balancing cost optimization with customer experience. Tom Leaman shares practical insights from scaling Max globally in the latest Frugal Architect deep dive: thefrugalarchitect.com/architects/tom…

Honored to be featured on The Frugal Architect with Amazon’s CTO, Werner Vogels, sharing how we approached building Max, discovery+, and other applications at Warner Bros. Discovery with scalability, reliability, and efficiency in mind.

In a new guest post from #AWS Sr. Principal Engineers Niko Matsakis and Marc Bowes take us inside Aurora DSQL's development from scaling write operations without two-phase commit, to overcoming garbage collection hurdles, and embracing Rust. allthingsdistributed.com/2025/05/just-m…

Interested in how we test our systems at Amazon? In Communications of the ACM, Ankush Desai and I write about the evolution of systems correctness and testing practices at AWS. We cover a mix of classic approaches, formal approaches, and new techniques like deterministic simulation.

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