AWS Startups Blog

Headquartered in New York, Rally has built a platform that turns collectible items into investable securities, enabling anyone to take part in the potential financial upside of owning high-value assets. From Aston Martins to rare Hermès Birkin bags, Rally users can browse the various categories, select which items to learn more about, and purchase shares in whatever catches their eye, all from the company’s mobile app.

The mass digitization of information has made finding the right thing online difficult to say the least. This is precisely the problem Yewno was founded to solve. Leveraging sophisticated AI, built with AWS, the startup analyzes millions of information sources in real-time. Rather than simply hunting for keywords, the startup’s algorithms read text, understand context and meaning, and explain why things are connected.

In this post, we want to narrow the knowledge gap and help startup founders prospect with a better understanding of their potential customers. When done effectively, prospecting results in higher success rates, which in turn leads to more opportunities and revenue.

At some point in every startup’s history, founders will need to acquire real customers—the type that want to invest money and time into the product. This means giving their product a price and reaching out to unknown people to sell them on buying your product. While building the product is exciting and fun, selling induces all sorts of anxiety and stress. Mark Birch, Principal Startup Advocate with AWS, explains how to calm your nerves and build up the confidence necessary to master sales.

Mark Birch, Principal Startup Advocate with AWS, introduces his Founder Sales series, which will provide a language and an understanding of how sales works so that you can be more knowledgeable when working with the sales team.

At Bugout.dev, the Palo Alto-based startup I founded last year, we build a search engine for programmers. As such, we run many experiments involving features that enrich results from our search indices before we display those results to our users. Most of these features require us to deploy backing web services.

At first, the Omnilytics team decided to split their workloads between AWS and GCP, but quickly started racking up large bills as they shuttled data back-and-forth between the providers. Learn why the company moved to standardize their cloud infrastructure on AWS and the benefits seen since migrating.

Nothing accelerates innovation more than challenges that need to be overcome. Over the last few months, the global healthcare industry has stepped up to the occasion: health systems have been deploying innovative solutions to keep their staff safe and improve patient outcomes, startups have been launching or scaling life-saving technologies, and regulatory bodies such as the […]

Check out a series of customer stories putting spotlight on the AWS-based ready-to-deploy startup solutions focused on helping healthcare providers around the world navigate the challenges of COVID-19.

Check out a series of customer stories putting spotlight on the AWS-based ready-to-deploy startup solutions focused on helping healthcare providers around the world navigate the challenges of COVID-19.