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Werner Vogels
10.03.2019

Happy Birthday Werner Vogels!

By Corey Quinn
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.
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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

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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. He also hosts the "Screaming in the Cloud" and "AWS Morning Brief" podcasts; and curates "Last Week in AWS," a weekly newsletter summarizing the latest in AWS news, blogs, and tools, sprinkled with snark and thoughtful analysis in roughly equal measure.

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