Grand Cru, LogMyCalls, MortarData And TraceLink Named Winners Of The Sixth Amazon Web Services Global Start-Up Challenge, Receive $100,000 In Cash And AWS Service Credits

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the winners of the sixth AWS Global Start-Up Challenge. Grand Cru, LogMyCalls, MortarData and TraceLink were each awarded $50,000 in cash and $50,000 in AWS credits, AWS Support services at the Business-level tier for one year and technical mentorship from AWS. The four winners were selected based on their originality and creativity, likelihood of long-term success and scalability, how well the business addresses a need in the marketplace, and implementation of AWS solutions.

This year, AWS selected four grand prize winners – one from each of the following categories:

Grand Cru – Gaming

LogMyCalls – Consumer Applications

MortarData – Big Data & High Performance Computing

TraceLink – Business Applications

“We are very happy, proud and honored to have been named the best Gaming start-up in the 2012 Amazon Web Services Global Startup Challenge,” said Markus Pasula, CEO and Co-Founder of Grand Cru. “Being a mobile free-to-play gaming company, having a great cloud based server and storage solution is critical for our success and a key component of everything we do. Only AWS fulfills our demands and provides the scalability and flexibility we require.”

"We are elated to be a Grand Prize Winner. The market values what LogMyCalls delivers--cloud-based analytics of phone conversations so businesses can optimize their marketing, automate marketing, and make more money from phone calls," said Jason Wells, CEO of ContactPoint, maker of LogMyCalls. "Our platform and our capabilities are built on AWS and they are central to our expansion strategy as we grow and require seamless scalability. It's an honor to be selected out of 2500 companies from 85 countries and we’re excited to work with AWS for the long-term.”

“We are humbled that AWS has selected us from such a large pool of impressive startups,” said K Young, CEO of MortarData. “Our mission is to make big data accessible to companies of all sizes - allowing them to analyze data and build complex big data apps with ease. We've combined the Mortar open source frameworks' focus on collaboration and simplicity with our Hadoop platform-as-a-service built on AWS's Elastic MapReduce service. Using Mortar, our customers take on machine learning, natural language processing, regression analysis, and much more using their existing skills—and because we build on AWS, our customers never have to worry about scaling or operations.”

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