Amazon Web Services (AWS): A wealth of resources for FinTechs worldwide

<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathryn-van-nuys/">Kathryn Van Nuys</a>, US Head of Business Development, Start-ups and Venture Capital at <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/">Amazon Web Services (AWS)</a> based in New York, talks about:</p><ul> <li>Amazon Web Services (AWS) value proposition - low cost, easy to use, global infrastructure to support start-ups from the early stage to global scale. Many household names like <a href="https://www.coinbase.com/">Coinbase</a>, <a href="https://transferwise.com">Transferwise </a>and many others use AWS infrastructure</li> <li>Strategic partnerships of AWS with VCs like <a href="https://a16z.com/">Andreessen Horowitz</a>, <a href="https://www.baincapitalventures.com/">Bain Capital Ventures</a> or incubators and accelerators like <a href="https://www.techstars.com/accelerators/barclays-new-york">Barclays Techstars</a>, FinTech Sandbox, Venture Center and others to reach and work with their portfolio companies and program participants, respectively</li> <li>Go to market and educational services, like:<ul> <li> <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/activate/">AWS Activate</a> program: AWS Activate offers start-ups free tools, resources, and more to quickly get started on AWS, including USD 100k credits. Specifically, check out <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/activate/founders/">AWS Active Founders</a> for self-funded and bootstrapped start-ups </li> <li> <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/well-architected/">AWS Well-Architected</a> review: helping B2B start-ups to be enterprise-ready, mainly in Financial Services</li> <li> <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/partners/">AWS Partner Network</a>: webinars and speaking opportunities for lead generation, direct customer intro: <a href="https://www.behalf.com/">Behalf</a> (on-demand purchase financing), <a href="https://www.behavox.com/">Behavox</a> (RegTech automates insider threats and misconduct detection), see specifics for start-ups <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/partners/global-startup/">here</a>. </li> </ul>