Weekly learning guides and project announcements for the XBrain AWS DevOps/CloudOps Foundation Program.
- Duration: 7 weeks (Phase 1: Foundation)
- Focus: AWS cloud architecture, infrastructure, and operations
- Format: Mon-Wed courses + labs, Thu consolidation, Fri group presentations
| Week | Theme | Guide | Announcement | Recordings | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W1 | Propose & Map — Architecture diagram, on-prem to AWS mapping | — | — | — | — |
| W2 | Storage & Identity — S3, EBS, IAM, VPC | Learner Guide | Project Announcement | Recordings | Slides |
| W3 | Database & AI — RDS, DynamoDB, Bedrock | Coming soon | Coming soon | Recordings | Slides |
| W4 | Data Pipelines — ETL, analytics, ML pipelines | Coming soon | Coming soon | Recordings | Slides |
| W5 | Networking — VPC hardening, API Gateway, WAF | Coming soon | Coming soon | — | — |
| W6 | Operations & Security — CloudWatch, auto-scaling, KMS | Coming soon | Coming soon | — | — |
| W7 | Capstone Hackathon — Ship Production-Ready AI in 48 Hours | Learner Guide | Project Announcement | Recordings | Slides |
- Learner Guide: Read before each week starts. Contains focus areas, hands-on tips, deliverables, and how to prepare for Friday presentations.
- Project Announcement: The mission brief for the week. Describes what "done" looks like on Friday and how this week connects to the final W7 demo.
W7 is a 48-hour hackathon and ships with more student-facing material than other weeks:
W7/W7_project_announcement.md— full project brief (English)W7/W7_learner_guide.md— day-by-day guide (Day 1/2 = suggested rhythm, not contract)W7/W7_hackathon_rules.txt— short Vietnamese rules sheetW7/W7_cost_estimates.md— reference cost estimates for 3 starter projects inap-southeast-1W7/starter_apps/— 3 ready-to-run source codes (pick one or build your own):- StudyBot (EduTech, RAG over uploaded notes)
- BudgetBot (FinTech, direct LLM transaction classification)
- DocHub (ProductivityTech, multi-tenant RAG)
Each starter app runs locally with zero AWS credentials (SQLite + filesystem + local AI stub) and switches to AWS by flipping env vars. Sample data is sourced from HuggingFace (wikimedia/wikipedia for StudyBot, coastalcph/lex_glue LEDGAR for DocHub) — citations + licenses in each app's sample_data/SOURCES.md. BudgetBot ships with synthetic Vietnamese transactions (CC0).
You are evaluated on:
- Group presentation — Your team's architecture quality, AWS design, and deployment demo
- Individual QnA — Your ability to explain decisions when called on randomly during presentations
- Daily checkpoints — Kahoot and other games during Mon-Wed
- Peer evaluation — Your teammates rate your contribution
- Classroom participation — Daily engagement tracked
Reach out to your group mentor or post in the training Slack channel.