Tag: Announcements

Alex Hirst and Lizzie Penny, Co-Founders at The Hoxby Collective, share why they decided to start their own company and how the cloud made it possible.

Ten of New York’s hottest startups shared their technical wisdom at the Startup Central booth at the 2018 AWS New York Summit. Featured startups included Zocdoc, Bustle, Redox, and more. Watch below to see their talks.

Picture this: You oversee a fleet of servers that supports one of the world’s most massive online retail companies, and a special promotion everyone thought would bump sales by 21% is actually giving closer to a 120% boost—all in the first minute. That’s exactly where Brian Herman, Director of Datacenter Compute Capacity at Amazon Web Services, was standing in 2015, moments after the first Prime Day launched.

Join us at Startup Central’s theater for a series of engaging talks from other startup companies’ CEOs, CTOs, and lead engineers. These talks will include information on various projects they’re working on, products/services they’ve used, and how they’ve leveraged AWS to ultimately find success. Featured startups include Zocdoc, Bustle, Redox, and more.

Notes from Founders is the first of a series of eBooks comprised of 25 original founder interviews split across five issues.

To get a better understanding of the service and how it came to be, we sat down with one of the product managers of SageMaker, Kumar Venkateswar. He told us about what the team set out to build, the problems they were looking to fix, and what startups are currently using the service.

The Australian startup scene is a burgeoning market that’s ripe for expansion. Just in the state of New South Wales—home to Sydney, Australia’s largest city—high-growth small and medium-sized business created over one new million jobs between 2008 and 2014, despite comprising only 6 percent of the state’s businesses.

AWS is headed to Hong Kong the week of July 9th for the 2018 RISE conference, which is Asia’s largest tech conference. Over 15,000 attendees from over 100 countries are expected to stop by throughout the week. AWS is excited to be a part of the action in Incense Harbour and will be hosting a variety of activities.

On Thursday, May 31st, Mexico City hosted its first ever AWS Summit. Held at the Centro Citibanamex, the event was the year’s second Startup Central and attended by thousands of people all interested in entrepreneurship

AWS Startup Day is coming back to New York City on Wednesday, June 27th and will be hosted at the AWS New York Loft at 350 W. Broadway.