AWS Startups Blog
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.
Create Post-Purchase Notifications using AWS Lambda & Amazon API Gateway with ClaudiaJS
Guest post by Richard Moot, Developer Evangelist, Shippo An easy way for an ecommerce store to improve customer retention is to provide a better post-purchase experience. If you improve the experience for customers after they purchase your product, it increases the likelihood that they will purchase from you again. One solution is to connect Shippo’s […]
From Monoliths to Microservices at Zocdoc
Guest post by Chris Smith, Principal Engineer, Zocdoc Over the last two years, the Zocdoc Engineering team has been decomposing our monolithic web application into a set of isolated microservices. We’ve put thousands of engineering hours into this transition to increase the velocity with which our teams are able to deliver products to patients and […]









