AWS Startups Blog

Work with enough startups and you’ll inevitably witness (or experience) the unexpected departure of a co-founder. So how do you protect your company, prevent disruptions, and make sure you can get moving forward again if a founder leaves?

For some people, road trips are all about scenery, snacks, and just getting away from it all. For Mackenzie Kosut, Amazon’s globe-trotting AWS startup evangelist, it’s all about supporting the world’s most innovative and undiscovered businesses.

Privacy and the handling of personal data continue to be a hot topic for media, government, companies and individuals alike. And with good reason.

AWS Summits is a free, global event series that brings the cloud community together and next week, AWS will be in Mexico City where Stephen Orban (General Manager, New Initiative, AWS Marketplace) will be delivering the keynote.

It’s a dilemma almost as old as the internal combustion engine: you’re too far to walk somewhere yet too close to drive. In transit circles, it’s called the “first-mile/last-mile problem,” and the team at ofo is looking to solve it.

As the internet becomes more accessible to a wider audience of users all around the world—especially school-age children and other learners—the field of education technology has boomed.

On International Women’s Day 2014, Sarah Moran sat down with the women who would become her fellow Girl Geek Academy co-founders to lament the state of hackathons—events, which can go on for days, focused on bringing tech minds together to build products, launch apps, and engage in collaborative computer programming.

AWS joined hundreds of entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, policymakers, and other startup champions from more than 170 countries at the 2018 Global Entrepreneurship Congress (GEC) in Istanbul, Turkey last month.

Mackenzie Kosut, Global Startup Evangelist, and Startups on Air, Kosut’s video series, took London by storm last week, chatting with CEOs, CTOs, and lead engineers from eight different startups throughout the city.

Imagine you’re sitting in your classroom for a biology lesson on the respiratory system and instead of conventional books, we place a breathing human being right in front of you. You can remove its skin and are allowed to step inside the organs and see how the nose, larynx, heart, and lungs work together to help us breathe. Imagine how clear your understanding would be after learning this way. That’s what Orbit does.