AWS Startups Blog

The body is often a mystery, and it’s nice when an external source is able to provide expert, evidence-based information about it. Flo App, a holistic health and wellbeing platform that helps women understand their bodies and minds, was built to do just that. Founded in 2015, Flo supports women as they make better informed decisions about their reproductive, physical, and mental health.

German fintech company FlNANZCHECK.de highlights some of the challenges that arise from operating in a regulated world as an organization focused on agility and take a deep dive into three specific regulatory requirements they faced and how they used the technology offered by AWS to help solve each of them.

Fintech startup CRED walks through how they strengthened security and monitoring over our public VPN instance, which was kept in the public VPC, keeping an ever-watchful eye out for unusual traffic patterns or content that could signify a network intrusion using AWS VPC Traffic Mirroring and a network intrusion detection system.

Digital insight has built a platform for automated due diligence research. However, the technical challenge that sits underneath is enormous. The amount of data that must be collected and analyzed to create each report is vast (much greater than a human would ever be able to explore alone), and the compute resources required to do this must be provisioned in seconds in order to meet their five-minute goal. Toby Miller, a Technical Architect at the startup, walks through how they addressed this challenge.

VirtualHealth provides a SaaS platform to a number of the largest and most innovative healthcare organizations in the country that empowers care managers to optimally service patient needs. The platform hosts personal health information (PHI), meaning data security and integrity are paramount. Upon a thorough review of the data hosting landscape, they determined that AWS offered a compelling set of value propositions and decided to migrate.

Founded in 2016, Kavak is the digital platform that’s making it easier than ever to buy and sell cars. The Mexico City-based founded startup recently achieved “unicorn” status after reaching a $1.15 billion valuation, the first tech company in the country to do so. As Kavak expands its operations to Argentina and sets sights on Brazil, we sit down with Vice President of Data Science, Anders Christiansen, to chat about how machine learning and AWS serverless services helped build the engine behind the company’s ever-improving workflow.

Telehealth is changing healthcare as we know it. With platforms like Talkspace and Better Help at our fingertips, talk therapy in particular has become increasingly accessible. But according to William Negley, CEO of Sound Off, there are still major gaps to fill.

All medical coding must be compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which has strict digital privacy rules in order to protect patient health information (PHI). Here’s how Nym Health does it with 98% accuracy.

There’s been plenty of attention paid by the media to the problems of facial recognition software in recent years. Invasion of privacy, for one, and high potential for misuse, for another. AIH Tech, a Toronto-based computer vision company, has set out to solve the problem that most other facial recognition technologies have faced in their bedrock: racial bias.

Web-based teleconferencing app Doxy.me saw explosive growth in the demand for their services after the COVID-19 pandemic began, with the peak being almost 3,000 sign-ups in a single day. With AWS, they were able to quickly readjust and rapidly scale their hardware to handle the influx. Here’s how they did it.