Author: AWS Editorial Team

Hicham Oudghiri, chief executive of Enigma, was one of several FinTech CEOs that recently spoke to us about how cloud services and Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are fueling the rise of conversational AI and recommendation systems. In addition to Enigma, we also spoke to representatives from Ocrolus, NerdWallet, AWS, and internally from NVIDIA to get their thoughts on this hyper-relevant topic.

Backbase is a leader in digital first, omni-channel banking platform and creator of the Backbase Digital-First Banking Platform, a state-of-the-art digital banking software solution that unifies data and functionality from traditional core systems and new fintech players into a seamless, digital customer experience. As they grew, they found that they needed a way to keep resourcing costs low. Here’s how they leveraged Amazon EC2 hibernation to do it.

Finding the right mentors at the right time is key to building a successful career. Mentors provide advice, feedback, coaching, and introductions that can take your career to the next level. Meaghan Casey, Global Startup Partner Manager at AWS and former CEO and mentor, shares her experiences and outlines how you can best use mentors to help your startup succeed.

The construction industry in Germany is second to last when it comes to digitalization, but software startup Capmo hopes to change that by seamlessly integrating with modern technologies and advancements in other fields, as well as newly gained insights from analyzing data to drive disruption of the industry.

In part one of this blog post series, we will look at four best practices to help reduce AWS spend with quick wins, all achievable in under 2 hours each.

Since dely is able to create its own recipe content, the startup can control both human wave-attack based and rule-based annotation, as well as how to apply feedback from user activities. In particular, Amazon SageMaker allows dely to train and deploy models quickly without the cost of additional resources. Here’s how.

Data practically runs through the veins of Steven Mih, CEO of opensource data orchestration startup Alluxio. He’s a serial startup CEO with more than two decades in the distributed data world. We recently sat down with him on the What Works podcast to learn more.

Industrial wearables startup ProGlove’s philosophy builds upon the pillar of putting the human worker at the center of everything the company does and draws on the belief that a human centered approach allows for better business decisions. Here’s how they’re doing it.

All startups begin with a great idea. Some seek rapid acceleration with venture capital dollars. Some iterate organically until they have a workable product that truly meets a market need, then use venture capital as rocket fuel. Invoiced, an accounts receivable (AR) management startup, is proudly in the latter category.

Whether you are seeing usage soar because your customers are relying more than ever on your services, or you just want to dial-in your spending for the road ahead, there are things you can and should do to optimize your cloud costs. In this webcast we’ve highlighted six quick cost optimizations every startup should consider depending on workloads and the patterns you are seeing today.