AWS opens London cloud space to target start-ups

Grazed from CloudPro. Author: Clare Hopping.

Amazon’s Pop-up Loft programme has launched in London, targeting start-ups with training and web service support for using its own public cloud. The initiative will be stationed in Fore Street, close to the City of London, until the end of October and will allow developers, engineers and entrepreneurs collaborate on AWS solutions with Amazon’s experts and other cloud computing partners on hand to give advice and direction.

The aim for Amazon is to encourage entrepreneurs to use AWS for building systems for their start-up, while the training courses, boot camps, self-paced labs, seminars and networking events will help spread knowledge among the developer community. The programme comprises different paths for developers to take, covering different subject areas including Ask and Architect to give developers one-to-one advice about their existing architecture, features and saving costs, while the Technical Bootcamp strand will be one-day training sessions that will guide developers to create their own AWS live environments using the AWS Management Console…

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