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Amazon Start-Up Challenge goes global

August 2, 2011 No Comments

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the public-cloud division, may soon become a billion-dollar-a-year business. But its economic impact is much bigger and wider than most think. It is crucial to the startup revolution that is sweeping the planet.

Or as Amazon CTO Werner Vogels says, with AWS all you need is an idea, a credit card and a dream. In order to push that philosophy, Amazon holds an annual contest, the AWS Start-Up Challenge, which is now back for its fifth year.