Guepard

[[tag:glance|At a glance]]

"In a few hours of effort, you get listed. That’s a real value to provide."

Guepard accelerates database provisioning for the era of AI agents: production databases are cloned in seconds, independently of their size, so AI agents and developers can experiment freely without any risk of altering production data.

Because customers run their databases on AWS RDS, Guepard needs to live as close as possible to their apps and data. Hani Chalouati, CTO, tells the story.

[[tag:question|Why AWS Marketplace]]

Be where the databases are

Guepard is deployed inside the customer’s own VPC, next to their applications and databases. With so many customers already on AWS RDS, the Marketplace was the strategic move: subscribe in a few clicks, deploy close to the data.

[[tag:question|Why AWSsome]]

"I tried to do it myself — the last mile was so hard"

Hani first attempted the listing alone and spent many days without getting through: too many details, no time between building the product and running the infrastructure. The AWS account manager made the introduction to AWSsome, and everything went quickly — a few weeks from first introduction to being listed.

In the words of Hani Chalouati, CTO at Guepard:

"It took us 3 meetings, maximum 30 minutes each. Less than one day of effort to be listed, against many, many days to not be listed."

[[tag:data-check|Results so far]]

A milestone for a pre-seed startup

For a pre-seed company, every milestone counts — for investors and for customers. Being listed on the Marketplace is one more KPI hit. The onboarding UI was easier to go through than AWS’s own, and most of the listing content was AI generated, leaving only validation on Guepard’s side.

Impact Highlights:

• Listed in a few weeks from first introduction
• Less than one day of total effort, against many days failing alone
• Listing content AI generated, Guepard only validated
• Onboarding experience easier than AWS’s own portals

[[tag:data-check|What’s next]]

Leverage the Marketplace to accelerate sales

Next milestones: the HubSpot CRM integration to capture leads, deeper knowledge of the AWS Marketplace ecosystem, and working with AWSsome and AWS to turn the listing into deals.

"That’s really a game changer. Anyone I know trying to get listed on the Marketplace — that’s a real good suggestion to make."