--- title: "Happy Birthday Werner Vogels!" id: "6417" type: "post" slug: "happy-birthday-werner-vogels" published_at: "2019-10-03T12:20:31+00:00" modified_at: "2022-02-03T20:13:47+00:00" url: "https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/happy-birthday-werner-vogels/" markdown_url: "https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/happy-birthday-werner-vogels.md" excerpt: "After watching enough of his talks to recite them by heart, The Duckbill Group says \"happy birthday\" to Amazon CTO Werner Vogels in our own special way." taxonomy_category: - "Uncategorized" --- You’ll want the sound on for this. Well he flies around the world from Hong Kong to San Francisco Distributing all the things from Berlin down to Cape Town Wearing different shirts and launching AZs in Jakarta Tell me where in the world is Werner Vogels speaking? Pushing database migrations, making Oracle cry Uncle From Athena to Redshift he’ll be slinging schemas Going out to dinner, sitting at Dynamo global tables Tell me, where in the world is Werner Vogels speaking? He speaks in New York then London, Boston then Las Vegas Jakarta to Papua New Guinea and back! Well he’ll snub Route 53 and claim it’s not a database service I’m sorry but he’s wrong, I don’t care that he’s a doctor He drops a syllable from A.M.I. but it can slide; he’s Werner Tell me, where in the world is Werner Vogels speaking? Oh tell me where in the world is, oh tell me where is he next? Ooh, Osaka to Frankfurt, Milan via Amsterdam Mumbai to Dublin, Ohio, Sao Paulo! Well he trots around the globe, and he’s dropping bombs of knowledge Then parties really hard with a taste for EDM, and house Saying “encrypt everything” and “secure your S3 buckets, please” Tell me where in the world is Werner Vogels speaking? Oh, tell me where in the world is Werner Vogels speaking? Where in the world is Werner Vogels speaking? (Back to Vegas) Where in the world is Werner Vogels speaking? Where in the world is Werner Vogels speaking? (What shirt will be wear?) Where in the world is Werner Vogels speaking? Where in the world is Werner Vogels speaking? Where in the world is Werner Vogels speaking? Encrypt everything by Corey Quinn Corey is the Chief Cloud Economist at Duckbill, where he specializes in helping companies improve their AWS bills by making them smaller and less horrifying. 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