About AWS GameDay
AWS GameDay is a gamified learning event that challenges participants to use AWS solutions to solve real-world technical problems in a team-based setting. Unlike traditional workshops, GameDays are open-ended and non-prescriptive to give participants the freedom to explore and think outside the box.
About AWS GameDay
AWS GameDay is a gamified learning event that challenges participants to use AWS solutions to solve real-world technical problems in a team-based setting. Unlike traditional workshops, GameDays are open-ended and non-prescriptive to give participants the freedom to explore and think outside the box.
Why Should I Attend?
Our approach is unconventional compared to other learning formats. Ambiguity and non-prescriptive guidance allow teams the flexibility to think creatively as they navigate a wide array of technical challenges.
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Test and grow your AWS skills
Participants can expect exploratory learning and implementing AWS solutions at GameDay events.
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Get Expert Advice
Gain access to AWS Senior Solutions Architects and Technical Account Managers and receive guidance on best practices to work through GameDay challenges.
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Foster team building and cooperation
The Unicorn.Rentals narrative at each GameDay event requires group cooperation and encourages team-based problem solving.
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Explore realistic AWS scenarios
GameDay events showcase AWS services, architecture patterns, and best practices.
Why Should I attend?
Our approach is unconventional compared to other learning formats. Ambiguity and non-prescriptive guidance allow teams the flexibility to think creatively as they navigate a wide array of technical challenges.
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Test and grow your AWS skills
Participants can expect exploratory learning and implementing AWS solutions at GameDay events.
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Get Expert Advice
Gain access to AWS Senior Solutions Architects and Technical Account Managers and receive guidance on best practices to work through GameDay challenges.
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Foster team building and cooperation
The Unicorn.Rentals narrative at each GameDay event requires group cooperation and encourages team-based problem solving.
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Explore realistic AWS scenarios
GameDay events showcase AWS services, architecture patterns, and best practices.
Step Up Your GameDay
Join interactive livestreams with hosts AM Grobelny and James Spencer to learn more about GameDay, gain tips and tricks, and solve GameDay Quests on LinkedIn Live, AWS on Air, Twitch, or YouTube.
Step Up Your GameDay
Join interactive livestreams with hosts AM Grobelny and James Spencer to learn more about GameDay, gain tips and tricks, and solve GameDay Quests on LinkedIn Live, AWS on Air, Twitch, or YouTube.
Upcoming Public Events
AWS Events Calendar
Find and register for partner-involved GameDays by searching ‘GameDay’ in the search bar on the AWS Events calendar.
GameDay Portfolio
These are just some of the versions of GameDays available today, stay tuned for the full list.
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Reuse, Recycle, Reduce, Rearchitect
Unicorn.Rentals has been under pressure after being exposed of unsustainable practices. While on her Spirit Animal Safari Yoga Leadership Retreat, the CEO was inspired to post a promise to reduce carbon emissions on social media. Our customers and shareholders are holding us to this promise and now HQ is scrambling to find ways to reduce our impact over the overnight viral post. Help us reduce our IT footprint through implementing sustainable best practices in our AWS infrastructure.
Relevant AWS Services:
Amazon EC2, Amazon Athena, Amazon S3, Amazon Glue, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
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Generative AI Unicorn Party
AWS Generative AI Unicorn Party GameDay offers participants a dynamic sandbox to harness Bedrock's potential, by building applications using various foundation models. You will witness firsthand the transformative power of large language models. Join us to explore, experiment, and push the boundaries of what's possible with Amazon Bedrock.
Relevant AWS Services:
Amazon Bedrock, AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate, Amazon CodeWhisperer, AWS Cloud9, Amazon DynamoDB, PartyRock, an Amazon Bedrock Playground, Amazon Transcribe, AWS Step Functions
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Secure Legends
Oops! The Unicorn.Rentals security team thought that job zero meant that security wasn’t important, and instead prioritized other “initiatives.” Our lack of investment in security has exposed several weaknesses and vulnerabilities in our architecture though, and we’re hearing reports of ransomware attacks and data leaks!
Relevant AWS Services:
AWS Systems Manager, AWS Security Hub, Amazon Macie, AWS CodeStar, IAM, ECS, AWS Network Firewall.
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Observability Matters
Last year Unicorn.Rentals encountered a new challenge - some of their unicorns decided they have done enough rides and it was time to retire. Unicorn.Rentals opened a new charity to look after retired Unicorns who demanded to spend their days eating their body weight in carrots! A new website was setup where unicorn enthusiasts could donate carrots to help feed the retired unicorns. Your mission is to explore the system we have, ensuring we have visibility into how well our applications are performing and that we can react to events such as a drops in carrot donations or reductions in website performance.
Relevant AWS Services:
Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Lambda, AWS X-Ray, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Db2, AWS Secrets Manager, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS WAF, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, Amazon Managed Grafana, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
GameDay Portfolio
These are just some of the versions of GameDays available today, stay tuned for the full list.
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Reuse, Recycle, Reduce, Rearchitect
Unicorn.Rentals has been under pressure after being exposed of unsustainable practices. While on her Spirit Animal Safari Yoga Leadership Retreat, the CEO was inspired to post a promise to reduce carbon emissions on social media. Our customers and shareholders are holding us to this promise and now HQ is scrambling to find ways to reduce our impact over the overnight viral post. Help us reduce our IT footprint through implementing sustainable best practices in our AWS infrastructure.
Relevant AWS Services:
Amazon EC2, Amazon Athena, Amazon S3, Amazon Glue, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
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The New Frontier
The launch of a new business unit at Unicorn.Rentals has led to some short-term success, but now our unicorns are misbehaving and customer satisfaction is down. We need you, our new hires, to dive deep into our production systems on day one and fix all of our problems.
Relevant AWS Services:
Amazon Fraud Detector, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS IoT Core, AWS Step Functions, AWS Lambda, AWS AppConfig, AWS CodePipeline, Amazon Route 53, Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Load Balancer
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Secure Legends
Oops! The Unicorn.Rentals security team thought that job zero meant that security wasn’t important, and instead prioritized other “initiatives.” Our lack of investment in security has exposed several weaknesses and vulnerabilities in our architecture though, and we’re hearing reports of ransomware attacks and data leaks!
Relevant AWS Services:
AWS Systems Manager, AWS Security Hub, Amazon Macie, AWS CodeStar, IAM, ECS, AWS Network Firewall.
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Chaotic Commencement
Unfortunately, the Unicorn.Rentals DevOps team abruptly left to pursue a digital currency venture. Customer orders keep coming in, but no one is managing our rentals application. The good news is that we located the runbook, it was propping up the leg of the foosball table. So, you'll just need to follow the documentation to get us back up and running again.
Relevant AWS Services:
Amazon EC2, Amazon VPC, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon S3, Amazon CloudWatch
Partner Benefits
AWS Partners can unlock GameDay Partner Benefits, such as the Quest Development Kit (QDK) and Co-sell motion to build a custom GameDay Quest and put their offering directly in front of customers.
