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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is beginning a brand new Space Accelerator, a mentorship alternative designed to foster India-based startups centered on area know-how.

AWS introduced this system on Wednesday and mentioned the 14-week program will catalyze innovation in India’s area economic system, which is poised to succeed in $44 billion by 2033. This program follows the agreement AWS signed with the India Space Research Organizations (IRSO) and the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Centre (IN-SPACe) in September 2023. 

Selected startups will obtain skilled steerage from ISRO, IN-SPACe, and AWS. They additionally could have enterprise and know-how assist from T-Hub and Minfy, an AWS Premier Partner. 

The program is open to each early-stage and mature area trade startups primarily based in India, who want a know-how platform to speed up their development and funding alternatives. Applications are actually open, with an anticipated program kickoff in April 2024. 

 During the 14-week program, the chosen startups will find out about area area applied sciences and purposes, together with the best way to leverage area information, construct scalable options utilizing cloud computing, information analytics, and machine studying and apply generative synthetic intelligence (AI). AWS plans to permit the startups to quickly experiment at a low-cost, to boost options earlier than launching and scaling them.