Flagstaff, Arizona—A City of 'Firsts'

The small city of Flagstaff, nestled at the base of the San Francisco Peaks in Arizona, has played a role in pioneering change in this country and the world.
  • It is the world's first International Dark Sky City.
  • It is the place where Pluto was first discovered.
  • It is the first STEM City.
  • It even played a role in getting the first man on the moon as one of the training grounds for the Apollo astronauts.

​Now, Flagstaff is the first Amazon Web Services (AWS) CloudStart City in the United States with Moonshot collaborating with AWS to help new businesses deploy cloud services that will reduce cost, drive efficiencies, increase innovation, and rocket startup growth.

Note: Your business does not need to be located in Flagstaff to access these tools. All Moonshot clients throughout the United States are eligible to grow using AWS CloudStart.


​Cloud Computing and the AWS CloudStart Advantage

Cloud computing, the on-demand delivery of information technology services via the Internet, is an array of tools that can help support anything from storage and database needs to analytics, machine learning, and more. It’s similar to a library that has vast resources businesses can check out and use as necessary without long-term contracts or substantial financial burdens.

The AWS CloudStart program, originally designed to assist whole countries in accelerating digital economies, is now offering these services to Moonshot clients. These enhanced tools, training, and learning environments help companies quickly bring their ideas to the marketplace.
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Chicken or Egg? How about both.

The AWS CloudStart program goes beyond just helping build new enterprises, however. It also provides training and certification programs so that companies using cloud technology will have the desperately needed workforce required to scale.

Moonshot and AWS CloudStart are addressing the old question about “which came first – the chicken or the egg?” Do you start by building and attracting new businesses or by developing a local workforce that can sustain new companies?

ANSWER: Through Moonshot’s cutting-edge collaboration with AWS - is you build both simultaneously.