AWS Startups Blog

In the fall of 2016, Jeff Gerber, Suplari’s co-founder and CTO, approached me with a simple solution to a growing business problem. He had noticed that most data within organizations was too siloed, making it hard to surface basic analytics.

When we started GenY Labs a couple of years ago, infrastructure was one of the biggest challenges for us. It wasn’t easy to find machine learning-tuned hardware.

Almost every engineer that starts at Brex asks, “Why are we using Elixir?” It’s a question with an interesting answer, and one that we thought a lot about before we even began building Brex.

Founded in 2017, DroneInch builds software for remote autonomous flight of off-the-shelf drones.

To hear Clint Talbert, Nuna’s Head of Government Engineering & Data Science, speak about trust is to understand how vital it is to the healthcare technology company.

At the Startup Central stage at re:Invent 2018, companies such as Buzzfeed, Reddit, and Affirm delivered presentations covering a variety of topics, including building out a blockchain infrastructure, securing microservices on AWS ECS, and building a serverless and compute infrastructure at scale. Watch them all here.

On the second day of Startup Central at re:Invent 2018, companies such as Bebo, Robinhood, Bill.com, and Coinbase delivered presentations covering a variety of topics, including using Amazon SageMaker and AWS Elemental, creating a self-service data platform, and a primer on Crytocurrency.

This year, the AWS Startups team put together a central place for all things startups at re:Invent. Located in the Aria expo hall and featuring a variety of activities, the space—dubbed Startup Central—was bustling from beginning to end. Watch the dozen+ talks that were given over the course of three days.

VICE had a large-scale problem to solve. Their ecosystem had become too large in terms of the number of brands they supported—they currently have sites in 35 different countries in 18 languages, which read in different characters and directions—and their engineering team wanted to make sure the reading experience worked well for everyone.

Indonesia, the fourth largest country in the world with 262 million people, is a fertile ground for startups. But that wasn’t always the case.