Cloud Computing: Amazon Startup Contest Winners Strut Stuff
January 28, 2013
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.
The setting was Dogpatch WineWorks in San Francisco, a site where customers produce their own barrels of wine. But a different kind of ferment gripped the venue Jan. 24 as 120 developers, bloggers and analysts gathered there to see which mobile application producers Amazon Web Services selected as winners of this year’s Global Startup Challenge.
Before the winners crossed the stage in WineWorks’ large meeting hall, attendees sat through a presentation by Simone Brunozzi, senior AWS technology evangelist for the Bay area, on the many technical assists and services that Amazon provides developers building mobile apps in the EC2 cloud. They ranged from its AWS Mobile Software Development Kit to its DynamoDB database service…
It was Brunozzi’s job to remind attendees that the purpose of Amazon’s Global Startup Challenge was to demonstrate that the cloud was a useful setting in which to produce mobile apps. He started out with a quip about how he realized his largely male crowd was disappointed that he was an Italian male rather than "a glamorous French woman named Simone." After that, he was all business, with an hour and 45 minutes of instructive talk…
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