Pitch Your Idea for the Secret Ingredient Challenge at AWS re:Invent!

Enter today's challenge here.

The AWS on Air show is challenging you to pitch your ideas for the Secret Ingredient Challenge at AWS re:Invent this week!

This challenge was inspired by cooking shows where you're given a set of ingredients and challenged to make something tasty and creative. Sometimes those ingredients are harmonious, and sometimes they're not. Often during the AWS on Air show, hosts and guests will talk about creative ways they would use new services that were launched and what business problem they could solve.

And so the Secret Ingredient Challenge was born! Now, we'd love to hear your fun and creative ideas for what you'd build with AWS.

First things first. What prizes could I win?!

There will be one prize winner for each challenge:

Challenge 1: Apple AirPods Pro (valued at $249 USD) and $150 in AWS
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Challenge 2: Apple iPad Pro (valued at $1,199 USD)
Challenge 3: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 (valued at $700 USD)
Challenge 4: Nintendo Switch (valued at $392 USD) and $150 in AWS
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Sound fun? Read on for more on how this works and where to hear the challenges each day.

How does it work?

Each challenge has a theme related to the day's keynote announcements and will challenge you to submit an idea. Challenges will be announced during the AWS on Air show during re:Invent and on the @awsdevelopers Twitter account. We will collect entries until 6pm PT the same day the challenge was announced. AWS judges will rank these idea submissions each day based on the following criteria:

• Quality of the idea, including uniqueness, creativity and ingenuity
• Scalability of the solution
• Potential impact of the idea

Winners will be announced during the AWS on Air show the following morning.

When and where is it happening?

AWS re:Invent is happening November 29 - December 3, 2021. The challenges and winners will be announced during the AWS on Air show each morning on Twitch, LinkedIn Live, and Twitter and in the expo hall at re:Invent. If you miss out on the live announcement, check back here for the day's challenge and a link to enter your submission.

Got your thinking cap on? Ready to submit your idea for today's challenge?

Enter the Challenges

Here are the challenges announced so far. Challenges and a link to enter will be added here each morning after the announcement. The current day's challenge is noted by ACTIVE CHALLENGE below.

Challenge 1 (completed challenge)

Submissions closed. Winner will be announced Monday, November 29, 2021 at 9am PT.

Challenge

How would you leverage open-source tools to build an event registration platform on AWS?

Challenge 2 (ACTIVE CHALLENGE)

Announced during the AWS on Air show on Monday, November 29, 2021 at 9am PT. Entries accepted until Monday, November 29, 2021 at 6pm PT and a winner will be announced on Tuesday, November 30, 2021 at 10:45am PT.

Enter challenge 2 here

Challenge

Pitch a security startup that protects laptops using AWS IoT, AWS Sagemaker, and Amazon S3?

Example submission (NOT a valid contest entry)

TypeKey is an IOT device that captures keystroke data on laptops to identify who is using the device. By leveraging federated machine learning and strong auditing enabled by Sagemaker and S3, our customers data is secure, and PII is striped using Amazon Comprehend. Our solution is great for companies concerned about insider threats or malicious actors getting access to laptops, as we can detect abnormal behavior on the key stroke level.

Challenge 3

To be announced during the AWS on Air show on November 30, 2021 at 10:45am PT. Entries accepted until Tuesday, November 30, 2021 at 6pm PT and a winner will be announced on Wednesday, December 1, 2021 at 9:45am PT.

Challenge 4

To be announced during the AWS on Air show on December 1, 2021 at 9:45am PT. Entries accepted until Wednesday, December 1, 2021 at 6pm PT and a winner will be announced on Thursday, December 2, 2021 at 10:45am PT.

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