The annual Amazon Web Services Start-Up Challenge is kicking off it's second year. Before entering make sure to check out last years finalists and the eventual winner.

Even though their blog announcement states "enter your great idea today", the fact is unless you're a fairly well established startup, don't bother. Seriously, read my two post above. They're so full of bitterness...it reminded me how much fun writing this blog can be.

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All my posts on the topic
Last years winner announcement on the AWS blog - This one kills me. They end the post: 'PS - I am sure that the first comment will be "When are you doing this again?"' And here we are a year later and the only comment is me bitching about what a joke the contest was.