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MeitY Startup Hub, AWS partners to encourage start-ups in India

• ByStartupStory     |    September 25, 2021

The MeitY Startup Hub, an initiative of the Ministry of Electronics and IT, agrees to undertake the resale and marketing of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud services in India, to promote technology innovation and the sustainable growth of startups in India, after signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Amazon Internet Services Private Ltd. (AISPL).

MeitY Startup Hub and AWS will work together to identify startups with technology capabilities and enable and empower them to build impactful solutions to address the biggest problems facing society in India.

Through the AWS Startup Ramp programme, start-ups will gain access to AWS Credits, a community of experts, technical training and support covering cloud architecture, cost optimisation, security, and scalability readiness, it added.

The MeitY Startup Hub will enable and manage government-backed innovation challenges to help startups to focus the public sector scale their solutions. Additionally, the collaboration will organise startups, and the community of incubators and accelerators to select and run startup acceleration programs with AWS.

Primarily, the collaboration will focus on startups attending healthcare, agriculture, public safety, transportation, smart cities, and citizen engagement. Identified startups will be able to influence AWS’s depth and breadth of services in the cloud, Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), data analytics, and security, among others.

“Mentoring, technical expertise, cloud credits, skill enhancement programming, and other resources provided under this collaboration will be of significant value for startups. We look forward to a productive engagement with AWS, with a vision to create both grassroots momentum and tangible impact,” said Jeet Vijay, CEO, MeitY Startup Hub.

“MeitY’s focused efforts supporting startups operating in social impact areas and building a collaborative innovation ecosystem is commendable, and we are proud to collaborate with the MeitY Startup Hub towards this goal,” said Rahul Sharma, President, Public Sector – AISPL, AWS India and South Asia.

Startups who are fixated in the public sector and attracted to learn more can visit the web page of AWS Startup Ramp program.

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