AWS Startups Blog

If you haven’t heard about the AWS Lofts in New York and San Francisco, they are an outstanding resource for startups and developers. One of the key resources that the lofts provide for customers are AWS Architecture Weeks.

As IT companies change their infrastructure and deploy new systems to achieve chain success, they need to find new ways to reduce service costs and optimize resource utilization. Numerify is an AI-powered IT analytics company that provides businesses, such as Fortune 500 companies, with these solutions, using predictive analysis to gauge how likely it is that these changes will be successful. Numerify helps IT organizations succeed in progressing from planning to development to operations, and predicts end-to-end IT operations. Shekhar Rajvanshy, who runs engineering and DevOps for the company, discusses how Numerify pulls information from multiple sources and presents analytics “on a single pane of glass,” rather than as a data silo

Gideon Taub, founder and CEO of Pinkaloo, has studied the issue of engaging millenials, and he’s become something of an expert. He knows that the desire for social consciousness extends to employment choices.

With an aim to make the overwhelming variety of master data simple to consume, Bernhard Bicher and Tobias Widmer founded Onedot in 2014 in Zürich Switzerland, with a focus on processing structured and semi-structured product master data.

With booming growth and a focus on innovation, the fintech industry is clearly poised to see significant advancements in the near future. As customers—especially younger generations—gravitate toward the ease and efficiency of mobile options to satisfy their financial needs, even large institutions have begun adapting to meet demand by offering digital documentation and app-based banking functionality. Still, no one in the industry would argue that many of the nimblest new products come from the startup world, where forward-thinkers can build from the ground up. 8 Securities, a mobile-only investment service based in Hong Kong, is one such company looking to change the paradigm of finance.

At face value, Dollar Shave Club looks like a fairly simple service. Users come to the site and are able to search through various grooming products, such as shower gels, toothpastes, or, of course, razors. The simplicity and ease of navigation is no mistake, however, with the DSC engineering team focusing heavily on creating a seamless user experience that showcases the company’s affordable products.

Founded in 2017, Lime is an urban transportation company that provides smart bikes and scooters for consumers to travel around cities. The startup has seen some dramatic growth since launching, having logged over 12 million rides across the US, Europe, and Oceania. This explosion in popularity and rapid expansion comes with some unique technical challenges, however, especially around data. Check out the above video featuring Xiuming Chen, Engineering Manager of Infrastructure at Lime, to learn about how his team leverages AWS to solve for such problems.

“With more and more businesses online, and more and more tools to attack digital storefronts and web apps, why would a criminal perform a physical break-in or theft?” says Ghin Khoo, Sales Manager at Kasada, an Australian cybersecurity company focused on the emerging Bot Risk Management space. “The number of break-in attempts can be massively scaled via new technology, and the chances of getting caught are much lower.  Criminals know it’s economically viable and lucrative to perform automated online attacks.”

As some economies develop, small businesses that also develop and grow can sometimes be left out in the rain when searching for capital. Banks frequently look for collateral to be posted with loans, which can be difficult for smaller companies. This gap in offering is exactly where many startups are flourishing via assessing companies credit statuses through atypical methods or data, and providing financing to the previously underserved. Konfío, a fintech startup founded in 2013, does just that for micro-businesses throughout Latin America.

Panoply is a smart data warehouse for BI and basically layers machine learning algorithms on top of Amazon Redshift.