We’re celebrating creativity on the French Riviera; AWS is returning to @Cannes_Lions on June 22-26!
Amazon Port, designed to embody a classic French village, will showcase how advertisers, marketers, and media companies are transforming creativity, audience engagement, and business outcomes leveraging @awscloud, @amazon, @AmazonAlexa, Echo devices, @PrimeVideo, and @Twitch.
Here's what’s in store:
• Rue Visionnaire: An immersive agentic AI experience where you transform your own ideas into full business or product concepts with branding, advertising campaign, operations and launch plans
• Thought-leadership sessions: Hear from AWS subject matter experts, customers, and partners for AI insights and industry-specific solutions
• A café and networking events with top advertising and media leaders
From founder to you: 9 innovative startups, all at the AWS Summit New York Startup Zone on June 17.
Visit the Javits Convention Center to see live demos from startups building breakthrough products on AWS:
• @neospaceai
• Dharma-AI
• @forlexai
• AICUBE
• @fleet_ai
• @HatzAIx
• DataMasque
• @sandbar
• @zocomputer
Demos run all day across dedicated kiosks in the Startup Zone. This is your chance to see what’s next in AI, straight from the founders building it.
New AI-powered capabilities for founders who want to ship faster:
AWS Startup Advisor: guides every decision from Day 1 through enterprise readiness
AI-powered migration: accelerates planning and executing migrations to AWS
Built on patterns from 350K+ startups and expert solutions architects. Your stack, your stage, your next move.
One day, one zone. Just for the NYC startup community.
On June 17, visit the Startup Loft Zone at AWS Summit New York. Built for those in the startup ecosystem, you’ll find founder-led panels on scaling in regulated markets, agentic AI, and what sets NYC startups apart.
Experience live product demos, a gen AI builder bar, pitch workshops, and dedicated time with AWS Solution Architects.
Check out our sessions:
8 startup founders, all building on AWS.
They built on AWS Activate Credits, shipped faster with Amazon Bedrock, and scaled through AWS Marketplace.
From the first line of code to millions of customers.
It's never been faster for a startup to go from idea to revenue. Today, we're building on that momentum.
Introducing AWS Startup Advisor + AI-powered migration. Built exclusively for founders.
We cooked. We ate. Literally (and figuratively).
@Techweek_ in Boston had us sharing insights, ideas, and culinary experiences.
At this exclusive Chef's Table event, startup founders and leaders were joined by award-winning celebrity chef Karen Akunowicz for an evening of connections, conversations and hands-on pasta-making.
Sherry Karamdashti, GM of North America Startups at AWS, shares why moments like this matter and what founders are really thinking about right now.
.@xpangler at @Variety gives us the scoop on @reactorworld coming out of stealth (with a healthy serving of AWS perspective).
The San Francisco-based startup has raised $59 million in Series A funding. Partnering with AWS, Reactor is building the foundational platform for real-time AI video generation.
What's Reactor's secret sauce? AWS Startups leaders Jason Bennett and Deap Ubhi dive into the technology powering their inference engine and how they can deliver at the speed of interaction, not just the speed of generation.
Reactor emerges from stealth today. That's big time.
We’re excited to support the team as they explore the art of the possible with real-time AI workloads on AWS.
@reactorworld is building the platform layer for real-time generative video, enabling developers to build interactive AI worlds and experiences at global scale.
Congrats to the team! We can't wait to see what you all do next.
When AWS, @AnthropicAI, and @emergentlabs get to cooking in the same kitchen... some pretty cool things happen.
Claude Platform on AWS now gives customers direct access to Anthropic’s native Claude Platform experience through their AWS account. No separate credentials, contracts, or billing relationships required.
Physical AI is hitting its inflection point. With @strikervp, we dug into world models and the multimodal stack rewriting robotics. The data gap separating LLM and robotics advancement can be closed.
Creative storytelling and technology converged at NAB 2026. Asteria, Coactive, Foundry, and Social Department gathered to present how they're taking media production to the next level with AI.
Content creation is evolving. We're here to empower studios and creators with AI technology that's accessible, powerful, and ready for production.
At NAB 2026, AWS brought together women in media and technology to walk the floor. They embarked on a curated tour of AWS Partner booths, hearing directly from industry leaders about the cutting-edge technologies shaping the future of media and entertainment.
The experience ended at the Amazon Entertainment Loft, with opportunities to explore the latest Prime Video features, game with Amazon Luna, and experience the power of Fire TV.
Women are driving some of the latest game-changing innovations in media and entertainment. Let's cheers to that!
NAB Show 2026 has just kicked off, and so have the @NBA Playoffs! Tap into your inner Toronto Raptors player by stepping up to the AWS Cloud Court Challenge in the West Hall Lobby.
Your shots are analyzed and turned into a personal trading card and social video, powered by AWS Elemental Inference.
Last week at @nvidia GTC, the AWS 2026 AI Pitch Competition offered 6 early-stage AI companies the opportunity to compete for up to $25,000 in AWS credits, dedicated mentoring support from AWS and NVIDIA (through their Inception program), and exposure to senior leaders from AWS, NVIDIA, and top-tier VC firms.
Startups @KeyframeLabs, Kuvia, @NomadicML, Tynapse, @Saptiva_AI, and @bindwell_ai pitched to a panel of judges, presenting their technical and business models to the audience that gathered at the AWS booth.
Nomadic took first place, followed by Kuvia in second and Bindwell in third.
Each founder brought their A-game to the table, and we're excited to continue supporting them as they grow!