STUDENT BUILDER TOOLKIT

Developer Roadmaps & Guides

Everything you need to progress from creating an AWS account safely to building full-stack serverless apps and preparing for cloud engineering interviews.

The Builder Pathway

Structured Learning Roadmaps

Follow our proven curriculum tracks to progress from foundational cloud basics to architecting production-grade serverless and generative AI systems.

ROADMAP 01

4 WeeksBeginner

Cloud Foundations & Free Tier Mastery

Zero to confident on AWS. Master IAM user boundaries, budget alerts, EC2 instance launch, and S3 static hosting without incurring accidental charges.

Key Curriculum Milestones

Setting up IAM with MFA & zero root key exposure
Configuring AWS Budgets & CloudWatch billing alarms ($0 threshold)
SSH into Ubuntu EC2 with Security Groups & Elastic IPs
Deploying your first static portfolio site on S3 + CloudFront

Target: 1st & 2nd Year Students

ROADMAP 02

3 WeeksIntermediate

Modern Full-Stack on AWS Amplify Gen 2

Build production React / Next.js 15 applications with code-first AWS backend definitions in TypeScript.

Key Curriculum Milestones

Amplify Gen 2 architecture & file-based backend configuration
Cognito Auth: Sign-up, social logins & JWT claims
DynamoDB data modeling & GraphQL / REST endpoints
CI/CD deployment pipelines on Amplify hosting

Target: Web Developers & Hackathon Participants

ROADMAP 03

5 WeeksIntermediate to Advanced

Serverless Microservices & Event Architecture

Build high-throughput, low-latency microservices that scale to zero when idle using Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB.

Key Curriculum Milestones

AWS Lambda lifecycle, layers & cold start optimizations
Amazon EventBridge for asynchronous decoupled event routing
DynamoDB Single-Table Design & Global Secondary Indexes (GSIs)
Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK with TypeScript

Target: Backend & Cloud Engineers

ROADMAP 04

4 WeeksIntermediate

Generative AI Systems with Amazon Bedrock

Construct enterprise-grade Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications using Claude, Llama 3, and vector embeddings.

Key Curriculum Milestones

Bedrock Converse API and prompt engineering guardrails
Chunking documents & generating vectors with Amazon Titan
Vector indexing in OpenSearch Serverless and pgvector on RDS
Building full-stack AI streaming chat UIs with Next.js

Target: AI/ML Enthusiasts & Final Year Project Teams

Resource Library

Developer Guides & Repository Starters

Search the curated library by keyword, topic, or skill level. Every entry links straight to official AWS documentation or a hands-on guide.

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Official Docs

Beginner

AWS Free Tier Survival & Budget Safety Guide

Step-by-step checklist to avoid surprise bills: setting up $1 billing alerts, CloudWatch alarms, and auto-terminating test instances.

#IAM#Budgets#Billing#Free Tier

Updated Oct 2026Open Guide

Official Docs

Intermediate

Next.js 15 + AWS Amplify Gen 2 Production Starter

A pre-configured boilerplate with TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Cognito auth wrappers, and DynamoDB CRUD hooks ready to clone.

#Next.js#Amplify#Cognito#TypeScript

Updated Sep 2026Open Guide

Official Docs

Intermediate

Building RAG on Bedrock: Complete Workshop Repo

Full workshop source code containing document ingestion pipelines, OpenSearch vector index scripts, and streaming Lambda handlers.

#Amazon Bedrock#RAG#OpenSearch#Python

Updated Oct 2026Open Guide

Official Docs

Intermediate

Dockerizing & Deploying Node.js to AWS ECS Fargate

Multi-stage Dockerfile patterns, ECR push commands, task definition JSON templates, and ALB target group routing configurations.

#Docker#ECS#Fargate#ALB

Updated Aug 2026Open Guide

Free Course

Advanced

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03) Study Sheet

High-yield architectural comparison tables: S3 storage classes, EBS vs EFS, RDS Multi-AZ vs Read Replicas, and VPC Peering vs Transit Gateway.

#SAA-C03#Certifications#Architecture

Updated Sep 2026Open Guide

Official Docs

Beginner to Intermediate

Debugging 10 Common AWS Deployment Errors

Fixes for S3 403 Access Denied, CORS failures on API Gateway, Lambda VPC timeout bugs, and RDS connection security group misconfigurations.

#CORS#Security Groups#IAM Policies#VPC

Updated Oct 2026Open Guide

Official Docs

Advanced

Cloud System Design Interview Question Bank

Real systems design prompts solved with AWS architectures: URL shortener with DynamoDB, photo upload pipeline with S3 & SQS, and rate limiter with ElastiCache.

#System Design#Interviews#DynamoDB#SQS

Updated Jul 2026Open Guide

Official Docs

Intermediate

Infrastructure as Code with AWS CDK in TypeScript

Learn to define VPCs, Lambda functions, and DynamoDB tables in pure TypeScript with type checking and reusable construct libraries.

#AWS CDK#TypeScript#IaC

Updated Sep 2026Open Guide