AWS Startups Blog
Web Summit 2017: Get Social CEO Jeroen Bouwman on App Discovery, Making Hard Decisions, and Saying No to Machine Learning
Listen as Jereowen Bouwman tells AWS about the original idea for Get Social, how he successfully pivoted from being a consumer-facing company to a B2B product, and why machine learning is not for every startup.
Large Scale Disaster Recovery Using AWS regions
Given the tremendous amount of data that we process daily, disaster recovery (DR) is of utmost importance to us. We aspire to ensure business continuity in the face of natural or man-made disaster. Here’s how they do it.
Product Hunt Hosts Its First Global Hackathon
Starting Nov. 1, Product Hunt will host the Product Hunt Global Hackathon, a month-long, and yes, global, online hackathon to create awesome products.
Lisbon, Here We Come: AWS at Web Summit 2017
Talking robots, self-driving cars, and chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov simultaneously playing 10 opponents. Web Summit 2017 is shaping up to be a real game-changer and we at Amazon Web Services are counting down the days until we’re on the ground in Lisbon.
Enabling Cloud Threat Defense with RedLock
RedLock explains how their new AI-driven approach correlates disparate data sets across large, distributed AWS environments and how this provides a unified view of security and compliance risks.
Engineers from Buzzfeed, Sprinklr and General Assembly Speak at AWS’s New York Summit
In addition to announcing a slew of new products at this year’s Summit New York in New York, AWS invited over a dozen up-and-coming startups to speak during our Startup Lightning Talks program. Participants included everyone from Buzzfeed to General Assembly to shopping site Spring. You can watch the full lineup of speakers below: Buzzfeed Software engineer Justin […]
How Chargifi is Using AWS IoT to Deploy Enterprise Wireless Charging Hardware at Scale
Chargifi’s smart wireless charging solution allows distributors to deploy their own wireless charging networks at scale. Doing so consists of three major functions: Deploy, Monitor, and Analyse.
Why Avatars are Usually Awful, and How Snappr Fixed It
The key to creating a good avatar comes down to the cropping. But if you suggest to your users that they do their own cropping, you are unlikely to receive much of a response.
Use Spot Instance Pricing for Your Video Encoding Workflows with Bitmovin
Guest Post by Daniel Hoelbling-Inzko, Solution Architect, Bitmovin Video encoding can be a time-consuming proposition. Every creative professional who has ever fallen asleep while exporting their Premiere or Final Cut master knows this. When encoding a video for adaptive bitrate streaming, most people do essentially the same thing: start ffmpeg and wait for it to […]
Analytics is Simpler Than You Think with Metabase
Metabase is the simplest way to get data in front of anyone on your team. Using a simple graphical interface, anyone in your company can create dashboards, set up nightly emails, or ask simple questions on their own.