Werner Vogels – Amazon and the Lean Cloud

Werner Vogels, Amazon.com CTO on the how and the why of Amazon’s cloud business. In the talk, Vogels covers Amazon’s history, design principles and learnings from building a world-changing cloud services business. Watch the video for the entirety of the superb talk.

“Amazon is a technology company. We just happen to do retail”, Vogels says. “Everything Amazon does is driven by deep technology stacks.” There are a number of design principles about what Amazon has built and how they have built it, but there is also a history.