AWS GameDay
The fastest way to prove your AWS expertise or discover what you're missing. Free to participate. No prep required. Just show up and solve real problems.
What is AWS GameDay?
A gamified learning event that challenges you to solve real-world technical problems using AWS in teams, with zero hand-holding. Unlike workshops, GameDay is open-ended and non-prescriptive. There's no single right answer. You explore, experiment, and learn by doing.
How It Works
Build real AWS skills that stick by solving problems the way youwould in production, alongside your team.
Show Up
Join an event, free to attend.
Play as a Team
Collaborate as a team to tackle challenges together.
Solve Challenges
Fix, build, and architect in a real AWS environment.
Level Up
Gain hands-on experience you can't get from a course.
Featured: AI & Agentic GameDays
Hands-on challenges built around the latest in generative AI, multi-agent systems, and AI-powered development on AWS.
Secret Agentic Unicorns
Dive into a live AWS environment where you'll build hands-on skills with Amazon Bedrock, foundation models, AI agents, and ML-powered automation. Take on challenges that blend classic cloud architecture with cutting-edge AI, and put your skills to the ultimate test.
AWS Security Agent
Meet the AWS Security Agent, an AI teammate that runs AI-powered application security assessments and agentic penetration tests against live applications. Work through a series of immersive challenges, and see firsthand how richer context turns an AI agent into a sharper defender.
Unicorn Kiro Force
Discover Kiro, an AI-powered development environment where you build software alongside an AI agent that helps you write, troubleshoot, and ship code faster. Complete a series of story-based challenges, and see firsthand how Kiro transforms the way teams build and drives innovation.
What Participants Are Saying
"Our team discovered gaps in our incident response we never would have found in production. GameDay made it safe to fail fast and learn."
"I learned more in 4 hours of GameDay than in a week of self-paced training. The pressure forces you to actually think, not just follow instructions."
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.
Participants can expect exploratory learning and hands-on implementation of AWS solutions. Apply knowledge in a gamified sandbox where you're free to experiment with approaches you'd never risk in production.
Gain access to AWS Senior Solutions Architects and Technical Account Managers who provide guidance on best practices and help you work through GameDay challenges in real time.
The Unicorn.Rentals narrative at each GameDay event requires group cooperation and encourages team-based problem solving. Discover how your team operates when it matters most.
GameDay events showcase AWS services, architecture patterns, and best practices through challenges modeled on real workloads: outages, security incidents, cost optimization, and architecture decisions.
Who GameDay is For
If you touch AWS infrastructure, GameDay has a challenge designed for you.
Threat detection and incident response.
CI/CD, coding challenges, app modernization.
Automation, containers, orchestration.
Design, high availability, well-architected frameworks.
ML, AI agents, analytics pipelines.
Upcoming GameDay Events
Browse the AWS Events calendar to find upcoming GameDay events in your region. Search for "GameDay" to see the full list.
For AWS Partners: Put Your Solution in Customers' Hands
Put your solution directly in customers' hands, not as a demo, a slide deck, or a trial, but as a live, competitive, hands-on experience where they solve real problems with your technology. It's an approach that drives higher conversion than traditional demos, extends your global reach with shorter adoption cycles, and comes at zero cost to customer participants.
What You Get as a Partner
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.
Go beyond demos and trials. Customers deploy your solution in real AWS accounts, solve real problems with it, and see the value firsthand in hours, not months.
Your Quest reaches technical buyers through a worldwide network of events, customer engagements, and partner-led experiences, creating hands-on touchpoints wherever your audience is.
Capture qualified leads at events, build awareness with AWS account teams, and unlock sponsorship opportunities that put your brand in front of engaged practitioners.
Get your GameDay event listed on the AWS Partner Enablement Calendar, the internal platform for webinars, workshops, immersion days, and partner events across every region. Discover upcoming events or work with your account team to submit your own.
Step Up Your GameDay
Join interactive livestreams to learn tips, tricks, and solve GameDay Quests live on LinkedIn Live, Twitch, or YouTube.
Ready to build your own Quest?
Talk to your Partner Solutions Architect or contact the GameDay team directly.