AWS Startups Blog

As a startup, it’s vital to act dynamically, quickly adjusting to the market’s and customer’s requirements. Peyman Pouryekta, CTO of ai-powered conversational marketing platform Spectrm, walks us through how to build and maintain a dynamic mindset around team structure, company tech, and overall culture to ensure startup success at every stage.

Successful startups design for rapid growth, which requires agility from the get-go across all parts of the organization, including purchasing. The way you buy for your startup can help your company respond faster to changing market conditions, whether they are caused by an influx of funding, a surge in demand for your product, or the uncertainty of a global pandemic.

AWS Startup Solutions Architect Paul Underwood believes that a data lake is just another complex and heterogeneous infrastructure problem. In this post, he illustrates how you might build a data lake-as-code using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). Underwood will outline the strategy, core data lake services used, associated costs, and how you can tie it all together with code.

These days, the sense of community has become all more important. Small businesses, often seen as the backbone of local economies, have been hit especially hard. Founded in 2011, Fivestars if here to help that exact segment, offering a payment and loyalty platform that takes the heavy lifting off the plate of those managing these businesses.

Stedi provides organizations with the ability to quickly connect and transact with trading partners without having to go through painful point-to-point implementations. Leveraging a serverless first architecture, the company provides a completely self-service ‘digital mailbox’ that organizations can use to exchange 300+ different commercial transaction types in standardized formats.

By focusing on the underserved SME sector and strong product values like customer satisfaction and data-driven methods, German fintech startup VAI Trade has entered the refinancing industry as a breath of fresh air.

AWS is returning to the Collision conference for the fourth year. This year, the Collision conference will be the Collision From Home Conference, running completely virtually, bringing together over 30,000 virtual attendees from all over the world. We will have a variety of virtual activities and content to share. Check out what’s on deck here.

These are not the times to try and dance around the realities of what it takes (and costs) to run a startup, says Emma Weston, CEO and co-founder of Sydney, Australia-based AgriDigital. AgriDigital straddles the worlds of farming and fintech, offering a platform for buyers and sellers of commodity crops like grain and cotton to do business with more speed and transparency.

HackerEarth is a comprehensive developer assessment software that helps companies to accurately measure the skills of developers during the recruiting process. Kundan Kumar, SDET at HackerEarth walks through how their team leveraged AWS Lambda to scale critical selenium UI tests.

Prior to Beewise, the latest beekeeping technology—if you can call it that—was created in the 1800s. The “tech stack” was a literal stack of wooden boxes called a beehive, filled with honeycomb, not to mention bees. Today, there’s Beewise, an Israeli startup leveraging IoT and AI to offer the first autonomous beehive.