Author: AWS Editorial Team

This year, over 100 million global founders will embark on their journey to establish their startup with big, innovative ideas to solve our most pressing challenges. Through our global startup program AWS Activate, all startups can leverage the same technology that successful companies of all sizes are enjoying to build, grow and scale their business.

For startups, speed is critical — you’re trying to move as quickly as possible to build your product and find product-market fit. However, it’s important not to ignore your security posture. Here are some simple steps you can take that will allow you to move quickly while still safeguarding your data.

A common mistake we see founders make when starting on AWS is trying to implement their own solution when a managed service could be used instead. Before choosing your tech stack, consider the questions in this post to evaluate what’s best for your business.

Like many startups before them, the team behind the Ergatta Rower turned to AWS to help them develop and launch their product. Watch this video to learn more about the co-founders’ journey, including how they’re utilizing AWS’s guidance, services, tools, and technology to build the future of game-based fitness.

When you’re an early stage startup, nothing seems more important than being quick. However, prioritizing speed and skipping a little bit of engineering time for foundational work can end up being a huge mistake, and there’s one in particular that gets made all too often in the startup world: not using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

Due to the effects of advancing climate change and a growing global population, agricultural professionals are under more pressure than ever before to produce higher yields with fewer inputs. Learn how Geopard, an independent precision agriculture platform, collaborates with Corteva, a leading global agricultural input company, to augment their physical products with smart recommendations integrated into a decision support tool powered by AWS.

No matter the nature of your startup, security is always of primary importance and should be one of the very first things you address. For most startups, your most valuable asset is your data — your ideas, workloads, and applications — and you need to protect it. Learn why multi-factor authentication is a must-have.

For most startups, scaling quickly and becoming extremely popular is a desirable goal. But the rate of WOMBO’s growth exceeded even the founders’ wildest expectations, with 25 million downloads in the first month alone—something that created a huge challenge for the company. AWS recognized the situation and stepped in to help.

At Amazon Web Services, we work with thousands of new startups every year, and we know how hard founders work to balance the demands on scarce time and resources. Often, a startup’s first goal is to build a minimum viable product (MVP) and by following AWS best practices for IAM security, you can ensure that you’re building in a secure way and protecting your users and your business.

Whether you are testing out an integration with a new AWS service, requesting increases in service limits, obtaining best-practice guidance, or minimizing risk when making changes to enhance the customer experience, AWS Business Support can help you make time-sensitive decisions to keep your startup running smoothly.