Amazon Web Service

How has AWS become the backbone of startups to make the most flexible and efficient way to work on it?

Amazon Web Service is a subsidiary of Amazon providing on-demand cloud computing platforms. AWS cloud computing provides the technical infrastructure and distributed computing building blocks and tools. AWS cloud covered 70% of cloud space. Startups are preferably using AWS Cloud because they found it the most flexible and efficient way to work on it.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud is one of the services of AWS, it will allow users to have at their disposal a virtual cluster of computers, available all the time, through the Internet. AWS's virtual computers include hardware central processing units and graphics processing units, RAM; hard disk, etc. Amazon provides security for subscribers' systems. AWS operates from many global geographical regions including North America also.

Benefits of building startups on AWS:

AWS help startups from inception to IPO. Startups get special AWS perks. Here it is:

  • Startups can enjoy free training, 1-1 office hours
  • Aws helps in hiring the right engineers and finalizing a fundraising round.
  • AWS Cloud helps you in building your apps quickly and easily.
  • Startups can innovate and build their architecture by using up to 722 Amazon services.
  • It helps solve a technical challenge.
  • startups can run favorite development kit or software on AWS cloud

And AWS has all the resources that a startup needs to get started. There’s a reason more startups build on AWS than any other provider.

Here is the list of top hot startups using AWS Cloud:

Depop: Depop is a community-driven social shopping experience where the next generation buys, sells, and discovers unique fashion. It aims for the fashion industry to become more sustainable and purpose-driven by offering a circular-first alternative to shopping new. They adopted the AWS Cloud because they need to operate faster without the dependency of large operational developers. they used 12 distinct AWS services like Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, etc to manage the increasing traffic and load on servers throughout the day.AWS enables Depop to quickly iterate, deploy, and scale-out new features, with a focus on machine learning. Depop total funding amount is $105.6Millions.

NextDoor: Nextdoor is a private social network for neighborhoods. It allows its members to connect and communicate about the things that matter most in their communities. They are using around 25 AWS services like Amazon EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon DynamoDB, etc to quickly prototype, develop, and deploy new features for community members. Nextdoor total funding amount is $717.9Millions.

Capillary: Capillary Technologies is an IT company. this technology delivers a loyalty program management and customer engagement software-as-a-service platform for retail marketing. Capillary solutions power more than 100 loyalty programs across the globe. They run in 5 distinct AWS regions like EC2, S3, Autoscaling, Amazon EMR, and Elasti Cache. To achieve a high degree of scalability, availability, and security. The capillary total funding amount is $102.1Millions.

Branch: Branch efficiently provides deep linking to save time and create a better user experience. Like when we sign up, we use to clear a lot of steps but the branch will save the duplicate steps and directs you to that particular state of your app. Branch heavily on AWS cloud. Using the AWS branch achieved a 99.99% success rate. branch total funding amount is $667.1Millions.

Monzo: Monzo has grown from an idea to a fully regulated bank on the AWS Cloud. they are more focused on account confidentiality and integrity. Monzo runs more than 1600 core-banking microservices on AWS, using services including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Elastic Block Store, and Amazon Simple Storage Service. The Monzo total funding amount is $1.1Billions.

Robinhood: Robinhood is the online trading platform startup offering no-fee securities trading. The company uses AWS to operate its online business, deliver and update its mobile trading app, securely store customer information and trading data, and perform business analytics. They use 18 AWS services. To regulate access to services and data. Their main concern was with accounts and transactions. Its data science team uses Amazon RedShift. And they are planning to expand their infrastructure to multiple zones of AWS. Robinhood's total funding amount is $5.6Billions.

DubsMash: Dubsmash brings joy to communication through video. People around the world can instantly create videos by dubbing themselves over an audio sound & sharing them with their friends. AWS enables Dubsmash to build a globally scalable, agile, and stable communication platform for mobile users around the globe. They use Amazon S3 for video storage and Amazon CloudFront for serving content. they easily handle requests from millions of users through AWS. Dubsmash total funding amount is $20.2Millions.