AWS Startups Blog
Inside Angel Investing: Should You Join an Accelerator?
Accelerators are a great way to jumpstart a startup, offering technical and business help, a built-in network, and the unrelenting pressure of time to get your MVP ready for demo day. Eamonn Carey from TechStars London walks us through the reasons you might want to apply to an accelerator, and why for some, raising an angel round is the better course.
eeMobility and Infrastructure as Code: A Migration Story
Not long ago, eeMobility was fully dependent on an external team who decided how and where to run its software. Initially this allowed them to focus on developing our very young software solution and deliver feature after feature. However, as both the platform and the desire to become independent evolved, they knew an infrastructure solution tailored to fit our needs was a must. Here’s what they did next.
The Startup Quick Guide to Managing Budgets, Credits, and AWS Resources
AWS Budgets gives you the ability to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budgeted amount. This post will show you how to set a budget and adjust it when paying with AWS credits.
Biotech Companies at Re:Invent 2019 Demonstrate How Cloud Computing Helps Turn Science Fiction Into Reality
During re:Invent 2019, the AWS Health Care/Life Sciences team hosted an afternoon of sessions. Talks were organized into two main topics: Computational Biology and Chemistry for Drug Discovery and Development, and Machine Learning in Biotech R&D.
OpenVPN on Protecting Gig Employees & Remote Workers with a VPN
At OpenVPN, which provides secure and scalable communication services, we wanted to launch a virtual private network (VPN) using AWS to provide our remote workforce with security and privacy wherever they are. Here’s how we did it and how it would fit for a use case for a small business.
Reimagining Data Protection with SaaS Startup Druva
Druva was born in 2007 when Jaspreet Singh, Ramani Kothandaraman and Milind Borate came together with the thought of disrupting the data protection market. Data protection solutions had become cumbersome to deploy and manage. More often than not, you faced issues when you tried to restore data that was backed up months ago. They wanted to change that.
1Ticket Leadership on Scalability, Automation, and Enabling the Flip Economy
We recently sat down with ticket brokerage platform 1ticket.com CEO Jason Knieriem and CTO Shakir James to learn more about the early challenges they faced as the business grew, how they’ve scaled, and what’s next.
Revamping the Cure.Fit Cloud: A Kubernetes Story
Individual teams at Cure.fit, a health and fitness app, tried solving poor resource utilization issues by manually clubbing compatible services. Instead of applying band-aid solutions they decided it was time to fix both problems permanently. Here’s how they did it.
Market Kurly’s Next-Morning Delivery of Fresh Groceries is a Huge Hit in Korea
Based in Seoul, Market Kurly offers a grocery delivery service that promises not only next day, but a next morning drop off.
Tough Feedback that Bounces Off, Always Thinking Bigger & Why Your Smallest Unit of Time Should Be a Minute
Sage Franch and her co-founders at Crescendo have all faced their own set of barriers in their work lives, whether that discrimination was based on gender, race, or any number of other cultural biases that can be endemic to many workplaces. They founded their startup to help companies learn about — and improve — their cultural competency, with software designed to promote diversity and inclusion.