AWS Startups Blog
When Should Startups Use a Managed Service?
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.
Video: How Ergatta Partnered with AWS to Develop and Launch the Future of Game-based Fitness
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.
Should Startups Use Infrastructure as Code (IaC)?
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).
Improving the Sustainability of Crop Farming Using a Data-driven Approach
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.
Why Early Stage Startups Need to Use Multi-factor Authentication
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.
How AWS Supported WOMBO’s Wildly Popular, AI-Powered App
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.
Founder Security Fundamentals – Improved Security with Identity and Access Management
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.
Leveraging AWS Business Support as a Startup
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.
CelerisTx: Drug Discovery for Incurable Diseases with ML on AWS
Celeris Therapeutics (CelerisTx) is pioneering the adoption of AI on proximity-inducing compounds (PICs), focusing on Targeted Protein Degradation. To save developer time and gain quicker insights, Celeris turned to Amazon SageMaker.
What Amazon CTO Werner Vogels’ Predictions for 2022 Mean for Startups
Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO since 2005, has observed macro trends around the technology industry, giving him a unique perspective to distinguish substantive progress from mere fads. He recently published his views on what he sees in store in 2022 for cloud technology and the technology world in general. Let’s dive into five core anticipated developments and their potential impact on the world of startups.