Tag: Announcements

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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.”