AWS Startups Blog

Because of his years of just getting it done, AWS Business Development Manager Richard Howard was stuck in the old way of doing things. What he failed to realize, however, was that to be really successful and help as many customers as possible, he needed to scale the impact he was having. Here’s what he did.

For Stephen Chung, Co-founder and CEO of Breakup Tours, travel is the best medicine for heartbreak. The Hong Kong-based travel activity app recommends travel itineraries for customers based on the emotions they experience after a breakup, whether it’s anger, sadness, or something else. As the app gathers customer data, it becomes more intelligent with its recommendations. Chung shares what inspired him to found the company, why its technology is relevant, and what his vision is for its future.

Volara – led by David Berger as its CEO and Founder – is building voice interfaces for leading hotel technologies, while providing hotels the software to manage conversations with their guests at scale.

How do you build a product and hire technical talent when you’re a non-technical founder? Former founder and CEO Richard Howard, currently on AWS’ startup business development team, shares his thoughts.

In 2013, Luther Birdzell formed OAG Analytics to create an AI platform that enables oil and gas companies to use more of their data to help solve critical problems like well spacing. Today, the OAG-Amazon SageMaker integration enables customers to unify their datasets and create proprietary analyses using virtually unlimited compute.

Dee Anna McPherson, Senior Vice President of Marketing at Movable Ink, explains why Movable Ink migrated its entire production environment to AWS in 2015—a move that took advantage of multiple regions and availability zones to provide redundancy, resilience, and scalability.

Serhii Tkachenko, CEO of Unicheck, likes to think of the plagiarism prevention software as the ideal “topping” for any learning management system’s basic “pizza.” He sat down to tell us more.

Customer service can be tricky and tedious—both for those trying to get answers and those trying to provide them. That’s where Berlin-based AI startup OMQ GmbH comes in.

Answering questions with data is no longer just the responsibility of a small team of data professionals. It’s become a shared responsibility between multiple departments. As a result of the data revolution, every job has become a data job, every team a data team, and every company a data company.

Throughout 2019, AWS held free Summits around the world aimed at bringing the cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn. Here are the startup talks from the 2019 AWS Summit in New York City. From using ML and Amazon SageMaker to analyze financial documents to leveraging Lambda in a variety of ways, the talks were wide-ranging and drew quite the crowd.