AWS Startups Blog
Startups on Air takes on London
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.
Orbit Brings Smartphone Augmented Reality into the Classroom
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.
Dome9 on Static Code Analysis of Your Infrastructure as Code
Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) has emerged as an essential strategy associated with organizations’ DevOps practices. Tools such as AWS CloudFormation and Terraform allow software-defined infrastructure to be deployed quickly and repeatedly to the public cloud infrastructure.
The Road to Cloud Nirvana: The Madrona Venture Group’s View on Serverless
As more companies move towards this mode of application development, we expect to see a massive amount of innovation around AI and machine learning, application of AI to vertically-focused applications, and new applications for IOT devices driven by the ability for companies to build products faster than ever.
How FUNDER Inc. is Powering A Fresh Take on Charitable Fundraising
FUNDER Inc. builds prize draws of any kind, turning them into powerful fundraising tools for nonprofits and the charitable foundations of major brands and sports clubs. Combining technology and entertainment, our goal is to reinvent a time-honored fundraising method.
Starling Bank CTO Greg Hawkins on the Future of Banking
Starling Bank CTO Greg Hawkins talks about taking on an incumbent industry like banking, working with regulators, and helping customers live a more financially happy life.
Alex Smola Showcases the Breadth of AWS’s Machine Learning Capabilities at Collision 2018
“Ultimately, my creativity is very limited, but your creativity is large,” said Alex Smola, Amazon Web Services Director of Machine Learning, to the assembled audience at the Collision Conference in New Orleans. “You can do amazing things with the tools that we’ve built.”
The Road to Cloud Nirvana: The Venture Capitalist and Startup View on Serverless with Accel
Accel Partner Ping Li notes, The advent of cloud computing, which began in earnest with the launch of AWS in 2006, kickstarted an era of unprecedented new tools for developers — from minimizing operational overhead with IaaS to bypassing operations altogether with serverless services like AWS Lambda.
AWS Empowers Beyond Lucid Technologies to “connect the dots” for Fire and EMS Agencies
The infrastructure that powers Fire and EMS professionals’ ability to communicate their frontline view must be powerful, resilient and redundant. Jonathon Feit, the CEO and Co-Founder of heathcare IT startup Beyond Lucid Technologies, says he’s all too familiar with this scenario.
Thank you, San Francisco! That’s a Wrap on AWS’s first Startup Day of 2018
On Wednesday, April 18th, nearly 200 attendees gathered at the AWS Loft for the second annual AWS Startup Day in San Francisco.
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