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Announcing the Semi-Finalists of the 2012 AWS Start-Up Challenge

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We received close to 2,500 applications for the 2012 AWS Start-Up Challenge! Applications arrived from every state in the US and from 84 other countries including Iceland, Ghana, Bahrain, Nepal, Cambodia, and Malawi.

Our suite of judges have chosen the following 24 semi-finalists:

Big Data & High Performance Computing
Business Applications
Consumer Applications
Gaming

The Finale Celebration for this year’s Start-Up Challenge will be held on January 24th in San Francisco.

Congratulations to all of the semi-finalists!

— Jeff;

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Jeff Barr

Jeff Barr

Jeff Barr is Chief Evangelist for AWS. He started this blog in 2004 and has been writing posts just about non-stop ever since.