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Whether you’re adding skills or staying sharp, we’re constantly adding new content to help you improve as a founder and professional, along with valuable peer interaction to keep things in perspective.
Below is a directory of all Academy offerings or a filtered list, depending on how you got here.
See our curated selections at the Academy Home Page.
Startup Loft Immersion Day - Going Serverless with AWS
This session allows you to learn more about Serverless; the native architecture of the cloud that enables you to shift more of your operational responsibilities to AWS, increasing your agility and innovation.
Startup Scale: Build for agility and speed with AWS modern apps services
As your company grows, you need architectures and services that scale efficiently. Event-based architectures and containers are key ingredients to modern cloud applications.
AWS Technical Founder Sprint: Best practices to take your startup from zero to one in the cloud
A three-day track designed to give MVP-stage technical founders/CTOs like you expert help with your initial technical challenges.
Startup Scale: Best price-performance, with next-gen cloud infrastructure
Attend this session to learn how new infrastructure options for AWS workloads are driving competitive edge for successful startups.
Web3 Ready: The Download
Join us for Web3 Ready: The Download — an hour-long, interactive session summarizing the exciting discoveries that emerged from AWS’ Web3 Ready Day. Our hosts, Jeff Hasselman, Global Startups Head - Blockchain & Digital Assets, AWS and Angel Gambino, AWS Principal Startup Advocate will answer your questions live.
AWS Web3 Ready
Join us for AWS Web3 Ready, a one-day virtual event showcasing the exciting possibilities of employing new technologies like blockchain, NFT and Metaverse, and DeFi.
AWS Startup Academy: URF: Building Community of Brand Advocates
Are you an underrepresented founder? Are you looking to create a community of brand advocates? Join us for a lively discussion.
Startup Scale: Top Use Cases for Machine Learning
If you’re ready to learn about use cases for A.I. and Machine Learning in your cloud-native product, this session is for you.
AWS Startup Scale: Generating Insights with Cloud-Native Analytics
A tour of the most common use cases around serverless data lakes and data pipelines that drive business insights and successful analytics deployments.
AWS Startup Academy: Save costs with ML Infrastructure
We believe that what you spend on AWS should be optimized. If you agree, join us for a robust session on money-saving practices.
AWS Startup Academy: Raising Your CEO Game
In July’s business-focused workshop and Q&A session, Noah Shanok shares his personal experience and expert tips on how gaining perspective and trusting yourself will make you a stronger leader and founder.
Startup Security Baseline Workshop
In this workshop, AWS Solutions Architects will guide you through setting up cost-effective foundational security controls in your own AWS Account to help keep your customers and your business secure.
AWS Startup Academy: Customer-Driven Sales for Founders
AWS's Principal Startup Advocate, Mark Birch, unveils the reasons that founders are the perfect salespeople for their products, giving early-stage B2B founders a toolkit for designing thoughtful, personalized sales messaging that drives the right types of deals
How to make sure you have a product people want
The determined (and sometimes only the lucky) founders are able to pivot when they realise something is totally wrong. We're going to learn from Peter Illes about how to do this before you start.
WICxInspire
WICxInspire is a signature networking experience with thought-leadership power talks, business bootcamp and curated business development to connect women tech founders and showcase their technology solutions with enterprise buyers, investors, and influencers.
Analytics on AWS Workshop - 2 of 2
This live, expert-led workshop will review the features and characteristics of AWS analytics services you can use to easily get answers from all your data.
Analytics on AWS Workshop - 1 of 2
This live, expert-led workshop will review the features and characteristics of AWS analytics services you can use to easily get answers from all your data.
Current Venture Capital Investment Trends
After a whirlwind year of investing in 2021, what can early-stage startups expect this year, in terms of the venture climate?
AWS Startup Scale: Data Analytics
Startups across industries need to harness data to stay relevant and differentiate.
MVP CTO Fellowship
The MVP CTO fellowship is a three-week track designed to give MVP-stage technical founders/CTOs like you expert help with your initial technical challenges. The program consists of 1-hour weekly sessions (attend live or view recording) with expert solution architects covering a different theme each week and access to a Slack workspace to connect with other participants and alumni of the program.
Building Your World-Class Product - Advice from Radial Development Group
Join in an open Q & A with Radial Development Group to help you with challenges around building your next app or website.
Choose Your Architecture on AWS
Choose Your Architecture on AWS will cover the different available architectures, when to use containers versus serverless, how to run containers, tips for picking the right database, information on data lakes, and more.
Starting a Business as an LGBTQ+ Entrepreneur
Join us for an evening of inspiration and insights on what it’s like to be an LGBTQ+ founder.
Harness the 7 Forms of Respect with Julie Pham
Do you ever feel misunderstood at work? Here's how to make sense of it.
Carta & AWS Equity 101
Equity ownership is one of the most powerful existing tools for wealth creation, and becoming an owner starts with education and inspiration.
Cost Optimization for Startups
We will show you simple ways to reduce cost, so you can go back and focus on creating value for your customers.
How a Transformational Mindset Can Impact Fundraising
In a fireside chat with AWS Startups Leader Gamon Yaklich, Steven Krein will reveal the practical steps you can take to achieve a transformational mindset and secure more cash.
Fundraising Strategies: The Right Way for Startups to Raise Capital
The must-haves when fundraising, and the pitfalls to avoid.
Getting Started with Security on AWS
A secure startup ecosystem has to be built from the ground up, and AWS Solutions Architects Faisal Farooq and Justin Plock will walk you through that build.
Startup Sales: A Sales Strategy That Actually Works
Don't Be Salesy: A new approach to selling that actually works