Author: Michelle Kung

On April 13, 2019 the New York Urban League Young Professionals (NYULYP) hosted its annual STEAM Conference for over 120 middle and high school students at the AWS Loft in New York as part of its National Day of Service initiative. The NYULYP organized a full day of mentorship, hands-on learning, career discovery, and entertainment.

Xosphere CEO and Founder Alan Hand talks about how he started his company, who his customers are, and how AWS has helped his startup, at the 2019 AWS Summit – Anaheim.

From unanticipated service failures to load-related performance degradations, infrastructure event readiness planning is critical for handling seasonal traffic spikes gracefully and dynamically. Without proper preparation, your best sales day could become your last. Gain insights into how Elaine Arbaugh, Senior Software Engineer and SRE tech lead, at fintech startup Affirm managed the massive influx of activity during the 2018 Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday shopping weekend by building a scale-up, fault tolerant, database system that was able to handle 5x a normal day’s scale.

Ilya Volodarsky, Co-founder at Segment—a customer data infrastructure startup—shares how startups can leverage analytics to answer the tough questions and enable growth.

Whenever your favorite banking, rideshare, or collaboration apps introduce a new feature or enhancement these days, it’s hard to miss. In some cases it’s welcomed—like being able to take a snapshot of a receipt or check to update an account. In other cases these changes might be a little annoying—like having to receive a digital code on your smartphone to enter and continue to the next step for a customer service request.

The ability to easily make reservations online for goods and services may seem ubiquitous, but many industries have not yet found the technology to match their needs. When Matt Millar and his colleagues found that 70% of the beauty industry was still running on pen and paper, he and his partners founded Slick, a salon management platform that helps hair and beauty professionals book appointments, manage calendars, and save money.

Saumitra Das, CTO & Co-founder, and Ali Ahmadzadeh, Head of AI, at Blue Hexagon, share the volume and velocity challenges in the threat landscape today.

Coralogix co-founder and CPO Ariel Assaraf started the company after completing his service in the Israeli army. Here’s his story.

Elad Mardix is the President of Clarifruit, an Israel-based startup whose mobile application monitors and analyzes fruit quality and ripeness. At the AWS Summit: Tel Aviv, he spoke to us about the technology behind the app, where he wants the company to be in five years, and how AWS is helping them get there.

Oceans are made for exploration. That seems to be the subtext of the evocatively named Datameer, which uses Meer, the German word for ocean, to position itself in juxtaposition with data lakes. The name Datameer hints at the immensity and power of data, which shapes lives today in much the same way that ocean currents shaped those in previous centuries. It also hints at the sheer inscrutability of data. For most people, being presented with raw data and asked to interpret it is as bewildering as being presented with a view of a flat sea and told to list statistics about local fish populations. That’s where Datameer comes in.