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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 made […]
Read MoreA look inside Vidora’s globally distributed, low-latency A.I.
Guest post by Philip West, Founder, Vidora Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) has dominated the tech headlines throughout 2016, and it shows no signs of letting up as we kick off 2017. While the tech giants push A.I. in their own specific ways, many other businesses are looking for solutions to stay up to speed and effectively […]
Read MoreEnsuring your investments invest in the right technology
As an investor you’ve developed an exceptional ability to invest in the right startups. These companies combine proven business models with a solid technical foundation to build some of the most exciting products around the world. But how do you ensure your investments are investing in the right technology? Making the wrong technical choices early on can bring on technical debt that can […]
Read MoreScaling on AWS (Part 4) : > One Million Users
In the fourth and final part of this series, I want to show you how to scale an architecture to serve millions of users. If you have not…
Read MoreWhat’s Hot at AWS Pop-up Lofts in July
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Read MoreAWS Startup Spotlight: Poshmark, ClassPass, Headout, VSCO
Awards, funding rounds, exits, and other newsworthy accolades for AWS-powered startups over the past two weeks.
Read MoreCluster-Based Architectures Using Docker and Amazon EC2 Container Service
In this post, we’re going to take a deeper dive into the architectural concepts underlying cluster computing using container management fram
Read MoreIoT Primer: Telemetry on the Cloud
The third post in the series of primers designed to help you achieve great solutions by bringing together a collection of “small things”…
Read MoreIoT Primer: Well Behaved Small Things
The second post in the series of primers designed to help you achieve great solutions by bringing together a collection of “small things”…
Read MoreAWS Startup Spotlight: Gilt Groupe, Twilio, Shopa, Airbnb, Grovo
A quick rundown of recent awards, funding rounds, exits, and other newsworthy accolades for AWS-powered startups over the past two weeks.
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