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Axial3D uses EC2 to host the infrastructure that allows surgeons to easily and quickly place orders to request a 3D printed model. They store the images on S3 and record metadata about them on DocumentDB, allowing them to quickly and easily track and sort their data.

Stream has come a long way since they first started working with AWS, and now powers feeds and chat for more than 500 million end-users. In this blog post, Thierry Schellenbach, the Co-Founder and CEO of Stream covers some of the best practices and AWS services that allowed them to sustain this rapid growth.

There is no question that the amount of choice in platforms and building blocks for software engineers is exploding. Traditionally, what was handled by separate teams with purpose-built hardware has now shifted to code (and infrastructure as code). This represents a fundamental shift in software architecture and responsibility that software engineering teams have to maintain.

I recently embarked on a journey to bring AWS Startup Days to Johannesburg, Lagos, Accra and Nairobi. Here’s what I learn about startups, founders, and investors as I engaged with some of the hottest startup ecosystems in Africa.

Pillar Project changed the base of their architecture entirely to facilitate a vision: an ability to ingest ever increasing amounts of data from various blockchain networks with high durability, low latency, fault-tolerance, transferability and ultimately store this data in a useful, unrestricted way. Here’s how they did it.

The reality is that every new application deployed in the cloud expands the potential attack surface and the number of possible entry points into the network. Frederick Harris, Director of Product Marketing & Cloud Security at Fortinet sat down to tell us more.

Suppose you are building location-aware applications to make the mobile workforce more productive and logistics networks more efficient. To do this, you would start by getting the live location and then show it to the customer on a map in real-time. To do that successfully, you also need to operate complex infrastructure to ingest, process, store, provision, and manage this data. Enter HyperTrack.

Berlin-based House of Crops is an agtech startup that’s digitalizing the world’s most traditional industry: agriculture. COO Maximilian Commandeur recently sat down to tell us more.

Less than 10% of India’s population is able to get loans from banks. Technology can address this problem by reducing the costs of processing as well as distribution. A growing group of Indian fintech companies led by NIRA Finance are now addressing this market for small-ticket loans.

Growth in today’s retail market doesn’t happen by accident. At EDITED, we help retailers drive sales by eliminating guesswork. Our Retail Decision Platform uses A.I. to optimize buying and merchandising decisions, ensuring they get their product and prices right every time.