AWS Startups Blog
The Startup’s Guide to Building Machine Learning on AWS
Allie K. Miller the Head of ML Growth, Startups and Venture Capital and Emily Webber, Machine Learning Specialist Solutions Architect, both of AWS, walk through how to create an Amazon SageMaker notebook instance.
Inside Angel Investing: The Education of George Burgess
Serial startup founder, angel investor, and college dropout George Burgess founded exam prep startup Gojimo when he was an undergraduate student at Stanford. Burgess was seemingly living the founder dream, but as his dorm-room startup found an audience Burgess found it was too hard to juggle both school and building his company. So, he left Stanford, and that is where his entrepreneurial education really began.
Convoy Leverages Machine Learning to Help Shipping Industry Reduce CO2 Emissions
Convoy Inc., a digital freight network, uses machine learning on AWS to help the shipping industry increase its sustainability and reduce CO2 emissions. Aaron Terrazas, director of economic research at Convoy, and Jennifer Wong, head of sustainability marketing at Convoy, recently shared more on the AWS Fix This podcast about shipping, sustainability, and how the cloud powers Convoy’s work.
Reverie Labs: Scaling Drug Development with Containerized Machine Learning
Reverie Labs uses computation to drive the development of therapeutics for cancer. To do this, they’ve built substantial cloud-based infrastructure to train machine learning models, deploy models to production, and build and ship internal-facing applications for our chemistry teams.
eeMobility and Infrastructure as Code: A Migration Story
Not long ago, eeMobility was fully dependent on an external team who decided how and where to run its software. Initially this allowed them to focus on developing our very young software solution and deliver feature after feature. However, as both the platform and the desire to become independent evolved, they knew an infrastructure solution tailored to fit our needs was a must. Here’s what they did next.
OpenVPN on Protecting Gig Employees & Remote Workers with a VPN
At OpenVPN, which provides secure and scalable communication services, we wanted to launch a virtual private network (VPN) using AWS to provide our remote workforce with security and privacy wherever they are. Here’s how we did it and how it would fit for a use case for a small business.
Reimagining Data Protection with SaaS Startup Druva
Druva was born in 2007 when Jaspreet Singh, Ramani Kothandaraman and Milind Borate came together with the thought of disrupting the data protection market. Data protection solutions had become cumbersome to deploy and manage. More often than not, you faced issues when you tried to restore data that was backed up months ago. They wanted to change that.
1Ticket Leadership on Scalability, Automation, and Enabling the Flip Economy
We recently sat down with ticket brokerage platform 1ticket.com CEO Jason Knieriem and CTO Shakir James to learn more about the early challenges they faced as the business grew, how they’ve scaled, and what’s next.
Revamping the Cure.Fit Cloud: A Kubernetes Story
Individual teams at Cure.fit, a health and fitness app, tried solving poor resource utilization issues by manually clubbing compatible services. Instead of applying band-aid solutions they decided it was time to fix both problems permanently. Here’s how they did it.
Tough Feedback that Bounces Off, Always Thinking Bigger & Why Your Smallest Unit of Time Should Be a Minute
Sage Franch and her co-founders at Crescendo have all faced their own set of barriers in their work lives, whether that discrimination was based on gender, race, or any number of other cultural biases that can be endemic to many workplaces. They founded their startup to help companies learn about — and improve — their cultural competency, with software designed to promote diversity and inclusion.