AWS Startups Blog

We recently shared the story of Tic:Toc, a digital home loan scale-up based in Adelaide, Australia, and the steps they took to set their initial foundations. Once your foundations are in place, having a process in place for assessing your architecture is important in building on top of that foundation. To learn more about how customers are evolving their security posture, we sat down with Alan McLeod, the CTO at FYI.

This week on the AWS Security Blog we will be sharing a post for startups and small teams on how they can improve their security in the cloud. We also want to share two customer stories about their journey to achieving a solid security backbone in the cloud. In this post, we hear from Tic:Toc, a fintech startup based in Australia.

In his AWS Garage ScaleUp Partner series, Jonno Southam on the AWS Startup Business Development team has invited the most prominent scale coaches to pitch their industry leading thought leadership content to AWS customers to help provide those customers with insights in their areas of expertise. These include topics such as growth strategies, branding, culture, and understanding startup KPIs (key performance indicators) amongst others that we will explore throughout 2021. In episode one, they dive into sustained revenue growth.

In a new initiative to support founders attending universities, AWS launched the U.S. University Startup Competition in October 2020, giving startups a chance to showcase their ventures to investors, mentors, and the startup community and win prizes. Meet the winners here.

Didimo, which means “twin” in Greek, has built a platform for creating realistic 3D digital versions of people, based on simple photos or scans. That capability has potential applications in a host of industries, from AR/VR and video games to retail, fashion, and communications—really anywhere people want to have authentic, engaging, immersive experiences.

Learn how the winner of the 2020 AWS Startup Architecture Challenge, Datacoral, is leveraging AWS to change the data game.

The body is often a mystery, and it’s nice when an external source is able to provide expert, evidence-based information about it. Flo App, a holistic health and wellbeing platform that helps women understand their bodies and minds, was built to do just that. Founded in 2015, Flo supports women as they make better informed decisions about their reproductive, physical, and mental health.

German fintech company FlNANZCHECK.de highlights some of the challenges that arise from operating in a regulated world as an organization focused on agility and take a deep dive into three specific regulatory requirements they faced and how they used the technology offered by AWS to help solve each of them.

Fintech startup CRED walks through how they strengthened security and monitoring over their public VPN instance, which was kept in the public VPC, keeping an ever-watchful eye out for unusual traffic patterns or content that could signify a network intrusion using AWS VPC Traffic Mirroring and a network intrusion detection system.

Digital insight has built a platform for automated due diligence research. However, the technical challenge that sits underneath is enormous. The amount of data that must be collected and analyzed to create each report is vast (much greater than a human would ever be able to explore alone), and the compute resources required to do this must be provisioned in seconds in order to meet their five-minute goal. Toby Miller, a Technical Architect at the startup, walks through how they addressed this challenge.