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Startup Lightning Talks from the AWS Summit San Francisco

This past April, the AWS Summit in San Francisco featured 11 lightning talks given by AWS startup customers and members of the AWS startup business development team. The talks covered topics ranging from serverless and AI to VC fundraising and cybersecurity.

What’s happening for Startups at the AWS Summit — San Francisco?

Whether you are a startup that’s new to the cloud or an experienced user, you will learn something new at the next AWS Summit, which is being held in San Francisco on April 18 to 19.

AWS in Healthcare and Life Sciences at HIMSS

Last week we had the chance to catch up with some of our customers at HIMSS in Orlando, Florida. In 2015, healthcare made up 17.8% of the U.S GDP, which equates to roughly $3.2 trillion in spending (up 5.8% from the previous year). With the advent of cloud technology in this space, we are beginning […]

Tel Aviv Startups: Here’s Who AWS Visited

With 5,720 technology companies being responsible for 45% of their GDP, it’s no surprise these companies are building in every imaginable industry. We had the great fortune to sit down with some of these founders, hear about what they are building, and find out how AWS is helping to power their innovation.

Startup Migration: Around the World to AWS

In 2016, we saw startups of all shapes and sizes migrate to Amazon Web Services (AWS). In true Amazon fashion, we dived a little deeper into our data to take a look why. Here are five startups we invited from China, India, Israel, and the US to share 100 words on their migration. AWS knows […]

The Alexa Fund and the new Alexa Accelerator

By Rodrigo Prudencio, The Alexa Fund Just over 18 months ago, we set out to build Amazon’s first dedicated corporate venture capital fund with the same mindset of any new Amazon experiment: Work Hard, Have Fun, Make History. And we’re doing just that. The Alexa Fund, with an initial $100MM investment commitment, has already […]