Author: AWS Editorial Team

This past September, AWS Global Startup Evangelist Mackenzie Kosut visited South Africa to learn how African Startups are solving regional entrepreneurial challenges. These include an unstable Internet, low bank penetration, limited smartphone availability, lack of access to education, informal to formal transportation, legacy insurance options, and even mailing logistics in areas with no established postal systems.

Most security solutions used by enterprises today emphasize a traditional network approach. Today’s modern organizations prize agility and transformation as underlying principles of their IT infrastructures. These enterprises that use the cloud to drive an innovative, agile business and technology agenda must adopt a security strategy that uses cloud principles to address cloud issues.

Today’s modern corporate access network is under siege. As smart device-armed mobile users continue to multiply and access more and more media-rich cloud-based applications, IT staffs have become overwhelmed with the massive volumes of disparate data that must be analyzed and correlated to find and fix problems impacting users’ network experiences.

The Internet has transformed the way we consume content. Streaming video platforms like Netflix and YouTube have overtaken traditional video formats like cable TV and live programming among digitally-native audiences.

ipdata Founder Jonathan Kosgei covers how he built a highly scalable API with low latency globally on AWS API Gateway and how his company handled Authorization, Rate Limiting, High Availability, and DDoS protection.

Eero, which produces the world’s first whole home WiFi system, has grown a lot since it was founded in 2014.

Ten of New York’s hottest startups shared their technical wisdom at the Startup Central booth at the 2018 AWS New York Summit. Featured startups included Zocdoc, Bustle, Redox, and more. Watch below to see their talks.

The Australian startup scene is a burgeoning market that’s ripe for expansion. Just in the state of New South Wales—home to Sydney, Australia’s largest city—high-growth small and medium-sized business created over one new million jobs between 2008 and 2014, despite comprising only 6 percent of the state’s businesses.

Before the propagation of machine learning (ML) and AI to the general public, the news curating services were expensive, meaning they were largely out-of-reach for the average retail investor. Now, however, machine learning and Big Data are changing the game again.

What do emergency responders, critical infrastructure asset managers, and miners have in common? All are people who must make decisions quickly in complex situations—often from remote and dispersed locations.