AWS Startups Blog

For most startups, scaling quickly and becoming extremely popular is a desirable goal. But the rate of WOMBO’s growth exceeded even the founders’ wildest expectations, with 25 million downloads in the first month alone—something that created a huge challenge for the company. AWS recognized the situation and stepped in to help.

At Amazon Web Services, we work with thousands of new startups every year, and we know how hard founders work to balance the demands on scarce time and resources. Often, a startup’s first goal is to build a minimum viable product (MVP) and by following AWS best practices for IAM security, you can ensure that you’re building in a secure way and protecting your users and your business.

Whether you are testing out an integration with a new AWS service, requesting increases in service limits, obtaining best-practice guidance, or minimizing risk when making changes to enhance the customer experience, AWS Business Support can help you make time-sensitive decisions to keep your startup running smoothly.

Celeris Therapeutics (CelerisTx) is pioneering the adoption of AI on proximity-inducing compounds (PICs), focusing on Targeted Protein Degradation. To save developer time and gain quicker insights, Celeris turned to Amazon SageMaker.

Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO since 2005, has observed macro trends around the technology industry, giving him a unique perspective to distinguish substantive progress from mere fads. He recently published his views on what he sees in store in 2022 for cloud technology and the technology world in general. Let’s dive into five core anticipated developments and their potential impact on the world of startups.

As a startup, chances are you’re prioritizing speed to build fast and get your product onto the market as soon as possible. While being laser-focused on your product is essential, it also means it’s easy to overlook your AWS spend, especially if you’re running off credit programs like AWS Activate. With AWS Budgets, you’ll be able to monitor costs and usage over time, allowing you to optimize your monthly bill and maximize usage of the perpetual AWS free tier once you’ve transitioned off of credits.

Selling to enterprise businesses involves months-long sales cycles and detailed procurement questionnaires that take up a CTO’s time and attention. Jon Topper, Founder and CEO of The Scale Factory (an AWS SaaS Competency Partner), explains how AWS helps make the process more efficient by streamlining and facilitating the process.

Early in the pandemic, startup PostEra saw a need for an accessible therapeutic treatment – but they had trouble getting anyone to listen. Recognizing concerns ranging from public sentiment to the difficulty in delivering vaccines or antibodies to the Global South, PostEra helped launch a worldwide effort to develop novel antivirals, using technologies from AWS. With help from our team, PostEra rolled up their sleeves to rapidly scale the infrastructure and innovative technologies to speed compounds toward clinical development.

As the popularity of online dating services continues to grow, so too does the threat from scammers, bots, and other bad actors. ICONY GmbH, a white-label dating platform based in Germany, helps address this issue by rigorously validating users — allowing its business partners to launch their services with a database of reputable and up-to-date profiles already in place. With more than 200 partners, learn how ICONY is helping to create authentic, and safer dating platforms.

Cost optimization is a top of mind consideration for any startup and can be achieved with a wide variety of techniques, but how you tackle it depends on the stage of your business’s growth. Startups are laser-focused on product development, which can mean choosing between time spent building extra functionality to manage costs, like reorganizing account structures or building cost analytics pipelines, and prioritizing low-effort-to-high-impact architectural changes to keep your momentum up. In this post, we’ll share three easy-to-implement cost optimization strategies to help you quickly understand and optimize your spend, then get back to building features that will drive value for your customers.