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Werner became Amazon ’ s CTO in 2005 , shaping the company ’ s technical strategy and the development of AWS . Born in the Netherlands and educated at The Hague University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam , where he earned a PhD in computer science , he previously served as a research scientist at Cornell University . Under his leadership , Amazon developed its microservices architecture and the principles of distributed systems that underpin modern cloud computing , while advocating for serverless computing and event-driven architectures .

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