Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched two artificial intelligence-powered tools aimed at helping startups accelerate application development and simplify migration to its cloud platform.
The new offerings, AWS Startup Advisor and an AI-assisted migration platform, are designed to provide founders with personalized technical guidance and automated migration planning, according to AWS vice president and global head of startups and venture capital Jason Bennett.
The company said the tools are intended to support both technical and non-technical founders as AI lowers barriers to software development and business creation.
“AI has fundamentally changed what’s possible for all of them. A great idea no longer requires a computer science degree to get off the ground, and the time between prototype and revenue has never been shorter,” Bennett said.
AWS Startup Advisor functions as an AI-powered assistant that provides recommendations based on a startup’s technology stack, development stage, and AWS usage.
AWS said the service draws on expertise from its solutions architects and operational patterns gathered from more than 350,000 startups running on AWS.
The tool can help founders manage cloud spending, monitor AWS credits, recommend infrastructure services, establish security baselines, and generate alerts related to identity management, budgets, AI workloads, and cloud monitoring.
According to AWS, Startup Advisor is available through startups.aws as well as integrations with development environments such as Kiro, Visual Studio Code, Cursor, and Claude Code.
The company said the service is free to use, with customers paying only for any AWS resources they choose to deploy.
AWS also introduced AI-powered migration capabilities that help startups move applications, infrastructure, databases, and AI workloads to AWS.
The migration platform generates customized migration plans after analyzing a startup’s existing infrastructure, billing information, and technical requirements.
AWS said the plans include architecture diagrams, service recommendations, cost estimates, Terraform templates, and migration runbooks.
Founders can choose to execute migrations with AI agents, work with AWS experts, or engage certified AWS partners.
The migration service currently supports moves from Google Cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes environments, PostgreSQL and MySQL databases, and Google Cloud Storage.
It also supports migration of AI and large language model workloads from providers such as Anthropic, Gemini, and OpenAI to Amazon Bedrock.
“We kept hearing from founders that they knew they needed to be on AWS, but moving their infrastructure or AI stack felt like a project they couldn’t afford to take on. That changes today,” Bennett said.
AWS said migration plans can be generated at no cost, while customers pay only for AWS resources provisioned during the migration process. Eligible startups may also receive AWS credits to help offset migration expenses.
