Author: AWS Editorial Team

We want to help you stay focused on your customers and building features for your products, so we’ve put together a list of the most common mistakes we see founders make on AWS, paired with advice on how to avoid them to save you time and money. 

Emerald Cloud Lab (ECL) provides access to a highly automated laboratory, equipped with over 200 unique pieces of scientific instrumentation, to any scientist with a computer and internet connection. As their cloud lab expands to meet growing demand, they’ve faced a growing need for scalable, on-demand compute. To address this growth, ECL built Manifold, a microservices-based architecture that runs on AWS Fargate.

Early stage startups have many technical decisions to make while pursuing product-market fit. Some technical decisions are reversible, while others are critical junctures with long-term impacts.

Nonprofits are often overwhelmed by the amount of data they accumulate, and lack the resources to generate value from it. In response to this challenge, charitable organization Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) Berlin was founded. As part of their mission to enlist volunteer data scientists and analysts to help nonprofits use their data properly, DSSG Berlin hosted Datathon, a data science hackathon powered by AWS services.

Camino Financial is dedicated to helping small businesses grow to reach their potential. Leading with empathy, this family-founded, financial technology platform startup aims to bring affordable credit to under-banked Latinx micro businesses, and empower underrepresented communities to build generational wealth.

Cost optimization is a priority for customers of all sizes, but founders particularly want to make sure their financial resources are being used properly and they’re getting the most out of AWS. Here are a few approaches that early-stage startups can implement easily in order to get the most out of AWS in a cost-effective manner. 

We are excited to announce the selection of the 12 participants for the first ever AWS Healthcare Accelerator in the UK, a four-week program that cultivates and promotes innovative startup solutions that achieve the quadruple aim of improved patient experience, improved clinician experience, better health outcomes, and lower cost of care.

Vincere Health offers low-cost access to addiction healthcare using reward-based habit training. Their belief is clinicians being in the loop are integral to lasting behavior change, and that the technology serves to facilitate and personalize this relationship at scale. Vincere chose AWS as their cloud provider because AWS provides the necessary tools to help us build a HIPAA compliant platform.

Polly is a DataOps platform that allows data scientists to access ML-ready data generated from data repositories, proprietary experiments, and publications. Powered by AWS, Polly’s infrastructure is fast, secure, and scales seamlessly.

In order to compete in today’s visual-first world, startups must deliver rich content quickly and flawlessly across all touch points, providing seamless and compelling user experiences. To successfully do this, they need an infrastructure with services that will allow them to run their workloads securely and rapidly.