AWS Startups Blog
Author: Michelle Kung
Michelle Kung currently works in startup content at AWS and was previously the head of content at Index Ventures. Prior to joining the corporate world, Michelle was a reporter and editor at The Wall Street Journal, the founding Business Editor at the Huffington Post, a correspondent for The Boston Globe, a columnist for Publisher’s Weekly and a writer at Entertainment Weekly.
Dome9 on Static Code Analysis of Your Infrastructure as Code
Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) has emerged as an essential strategy associated with organizations’ DevOps practices. Tools such as AWS CloudFormation and Terraform allow software-defined infrastructure to be deployed quickly and repeatedly to the public cloud infrastructure.
The Road to Cloud Nirvana: The Madrona Venture Group’s View on Serverless
As more companies move towards this mode of application development, we expect to see a massive amount of innovation around AI and machine learning, application of AI to vertically-focused applications, and new applications for IOT devices driven by the ability for companies to build products faster than ever.
How FUNDER Inc. is Powering A Fresh Take on Charitable Fundraising
FUNDER Inc. builds prize draws of any kind, turning them into powerful fundraising tools for nonprofits and the charitable foundations of major brands and sports clubs. Combining technology and entertainment, our goal is to reinvent a time-honored fundraising method.
Starling Bank CTO Greg Hawkins on the Future of Banking
Starling Bank CTO Greg Hawkins talks about taking on an incumbent industry like banking, working with regulators, and helping customers live a more financially happy life.
Alex Smola Showcases the Breadth of AWS’s Machine Learning Capabilities at Collision 2018
“Ultimately, my creativity is very limited, but your creativity is large,” said Alex Smola, Amazon Web Services Director of Machine Learning, to the assembled audience at the Collision Conference in New Orleans. “You can do amazing things with the tools that we’ve built.”
The Road to Cloud Nirvana: The Venture Capitalist and Startup View on Serverless with Accel
Accel Partner Ping Li notes, The advent of cloud computing, which began in earnest with the launch of AWS in 2006, kickstarted an era of unprecedented new tools for developers — from minimizing operational overhead with IaaS to bypassing operations altogether with serverless services like AWS Lambda.
GoGuardian’s Aza Steel on the Power of Listening and Iteration
Aza Steel might be a bit of a prodigy, but he never set out to be a technological savior for teachers and parents. In fact, when he first developed the Chrome browser extension that would become the seed of his company in the early aughts, he was just a UCLA sociology major trying to find a way to track his laptop’s location in case it was stolen.
How Nauto Is Using AI & Ml to Build a Data Platform That Makes Driving Safer and Fleets Smarter
Founded in 2015, Nauto is focused on building a data platform to make vehicles on our roads safer while also improving the technology for autonomous vehicles in the future.
What if you could A/B Test the Physical World?
Density has built a piece of enterprise hardware for corporate campuses that measures how space is used. Many believe the technology is key to optimizing how all physical space is used.
Data in their DNA: Repositive.io Builds Common Ground for Genomic Research
What do you get when you put the world’s brightest scientists in a room, arm them with the most advanced tools of their trade, and get them to work on the world’s hardest problems? Not much without data. At least that’s the thought behind Repositive.io, the first portal for researchers to browse the world’s human genomic data.