[4][5] Vogels received a Ph.D. in computer science from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands, supervised by Henri Bal and Andy Tanenbaum.

[1] After his mandatory military service at the Royal Netherlands Navy, Vogels studied radiology, both diagnostics and therapy.

[9][10][11][12] He co-founded a company with Kenneth Birman and Robbert van Renesse in 1997 called Reliable Network Solutions, Inc.

The company possessed U.S. patents on computer network resource monitoring and multicast protocols.

In 2023 Werner Vogels introduced "The Frugal Architect" which outlines seven laws to make software architectures more cost efficient.