Tag: Technical Use Cases

To put that in context, Zaven Boni, a DevOps Manager for GoPro, recently explained to a room full of entrepreneurs at the AWS Startup Loft in San Francisco that GoPro Plus—the name of their online video hosting service—processes hundreds of thousands of API requests per minute; at peak times, it can even top half a million per minute. 

The key to creating a good avatar comes down to the cropping. But if you suggest to your users that they do their own cropping, you are unlikely to receive much of a response.

Guest post by Richard Moot, Developer Evangelist, Shippo An easy way for an ecommerce store to improve customer retention is to provide a better post-purchase experience. If you improve the experience for customers after they purchase your product, it increases the likelihood that they will purchase from you again. One solution is to connect Shippo’s […]

AWS serverless and managed services allow you to quickly build applications without worrying about the underlying infrastructure. In this post, you have seen an example of this by building a fun, simple IoT project to enhance the experience of your Airbnb guests and to make your job as a host more convenient.

Chirp is a London-based startup that provides data-over-sound technology solutions that aid interoperability between networks and devices and simplifies the connection and data-sharing process between devices using sound.

Guest post by Michael Mendlawy, Senior developer, Crazylister “What is the best infrastructure for processing massive amounts of requests at unpredictable times?” In this blog post, we describe what led us to ask this question and how AWS Lambda helped us answer it. Before we dive into the nuts and bolts of the solution, a […]

Sunday morning I was looking at a large folder on my laptop containing hundreds of images. Thumbnails are wonderful, but what I really wanted was an easy way to search my folder quickly for photos that contained picture of cliffs. Here’s how I used Rekognition to do it.

At a recent Artsy board meeting an investor asked, “You’ve shipped a tremendous amount of software in 2016 with a very small team. How did you do that?” Here’s what they did.

“What’s the easiest way to get started on AWS?” is a common question. Although there are many well established paths to getting started, including using AWS Elastic Beanstalk, serverless computing is a rapidly growing alternative.

By Brent Rabowsky, Startup Solutions Architect, AWS