Showcase your programming and creative skills in the AWS Lambda Hackathon! 

AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that helps you build applications quickly. With AWS Lambda, you can focus on writing code while AWS handles most infrastructure management tasks including automated scaling based on your application demands.

Requirements

What to Build

Entrants must build an application using AWS Lambda to solve real-world business problems.

  • Your application must use AWS Lambda as a core service.
  • Your application must implement at least one Lambda trigger (e.g., API gateway, EventBridge).

  • [Optional] Your application may integrate with one or more AWS service of your choice (e.g., S3, DynamoDB, Bedrock)

Looking for inspiration? Check out sample projects in the resource page.

 

What to Submit

  • Provide a URL to your public code repository for judging and testing.
    • Include a detailed README.md: must include explanation on how your application used AWS Lambda
  • Include a video (about 3 minutes) that demonstrates your submission. Videos must be uploaded to YouTube or Vimeo and made public.
    • Video must demonstrate your project in action
    • Explain how your application used AWS Lambda
  • Provide a list of all AWS tools used
  • Complete Devpost submission form

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$15,000 in prizes
1st Prize
$6,000 in cash
1 winner

2nd Prize
$4,000 in cash
1 winner

3rd Prize
$3,000 in cash
1 winner

Honarable mentions
$500 in cash
4 winners

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Nick Coult

Nick Coult
Director of Product, Serverless Compute | AWS

Ali Spittel

Ali Spittel
Head of Developer Advocacy, North America | AWS

Eric Johnson

Eric Johnson
Principal Developer Advocate | AWS

Julian Wood

Julian Wood
Serverless Developer Advocate | AWS

Gunnar Grosch

Gunnar Grosch
Principal Developer Advocate | AWS

Erik Hanchett

Erik Hanchett
Senior Developer Advocate | AWS

Janak Agarwal

Janak Agarwal
Sr. Manager of Product, Serverless Compute | AWS

Sisira Narayana

Sisira Narayana
Principal Product Manager, Serverless Compute | AWS

Rajesh Kumar Pandey

Rajesh Kumar Pandey
Principal Software Engineer, AWS Lambda | AWS

Adalie Pierce-McManamon

Adalie Pierce-McManamon
Principal Designer, CX | AWS

Judging Criteria

  • Quality of the Idea
    Creativity and originality of the project concept, unique problem-solving approaches, and the solution's real-world applicability and practical value.
  • Architecture & Design
    The use of serverless architectural patterns, adherence to serverless best practices, efficient utilization of AWS Lambda and other serverless services, and overall solution design quality.
  • Completeness
    Reviews whether there is a working end-to-end solution, successful implementation of all core features, and quality of documentation and presentation.

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