With the unenviable job description of driving innovation into the planet ’ s most pioneering company , Amazon ’ s VP and CTO has a résumé that ’ s as wide-ranging as his employer . Mandatory service in the Royal Netherlands Army was followed by radiology and computer science studies , before a spate of research roles led him to Amazon in 2004 . Vogels is hailed as a key architect of the firm ’ s revolutionary cloud service .

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