AWS Startups Blog

Maral Kalajian, Marketing & Communications Manager at Watty, talks about how the Stockholm, Sweden-based startup makes tools to help people understand what is happening in their home in real-time. 

Join us for an inside look into Food and AgroTech startups building on AWS! We’re joined by some startups from the food industry, including Parsley, to discuss how they got their start, their company missions, and how helped them accomplish their architectural goals.

In today’s complex, internet-driven consumer marketplace, it’s nearly impossible to purchase goods that haven’t spent some time on a truck. With that kind of reach, the logistics industry has a considerable ripple effect on the environment and on the cost of consumer items. When trucks burn more fuel, they increase global pollution and shipping costs, which leads to higher prices at the register for the goods we buy every day.

Datree connects with GitHub to provide automatic policy compliance tests and insights for every code commit. It provides managers a central place to set policies across the organization, and to have a full view of all code components, contributors, and repositories. CTO and Co-Founder Shimon Tolts talks about the risks of losing control, serving their customers, and more.

London-based Unmade is an on-demand clothing manufacturing platform that offers businesses the ability to offer customization to their customers. Co-founder Kirsty Emery talks to us about how they utilize new technologies, how she met her two co-founders, and how they will take on the fashion industry.

Voyance is a fundamentally new approach to infrastructure management using AI/ML technology and big data analytics – all enabled by AWS and its scalable cloud-computing framework.  With it enterprises are able to gain quantifiable insight into the operation of their networks and the impact on end user experience and productivity – something that, until now, was never possible.

Thanks to the pervasiveness of WeChat, the growth of Didi Chuxing, and the massive scale of giants like Alibaba and Tencent, everyone seemingly now wants to get in on the action with Chinese startups. Before before anyone can dive into the Chinese market, noted GSR Ventures Partner Yuechen Zhao at a recent AWS event in San Francisco, it’s important to understand what drives China, and how it is different from other markets around the world.

Founded in 2016, intermix.io enables data engineers with the tools they need to be successful. This in turn enables the data scientists to actually be successful. But how does the startup do it?

Gerald Zankl, Business and Sales Director at Bitmovin, talks about how his startup helps other companies and where it fit into the marketplace, as well as the challenges of streaming video.

As organizations around the world embrace the public cloud of AWS and leverage its vast benefits, the overhead and work of DevOps engineers are growing heavily. Developers use a wide range of infrastructure and platform services for deploying applications. Containers and Serverless are fast gaining traction and organizations understand that their cloud spending is sometimes suboptimal; they are constantly looking for ways to optimize their spend without any additional operational overhead. This problem is compounded by a severe talent shortage in the market.