Demo Challenges

The demo challenges provide an opportunity to familiarize yourself with the competition platform and the types of tasks you will encounter during the Regional Championships 2025. You will have up to 5 attempts to complete 5 shorter tasks, each within a 3-hour time limit. These tasks are designed to give you a feel for the competition, though they will not be identical to the actual competition tasks.

Why Demo Challenges?

These demo challenges give you the chance to see the competition platform in action. You will receive up to 5 attempts to complete 5 shorter tasks on the platform, and have 3 hours for every attempt available. The tasks are within the scope of the regional championships and are meant to give you a rough feeling for the competition. Please note that the tasks will not be identical to the ones you will face during the actual competition.

When are the Demo Challenges?

The demo challenges are fully decentralized and you can launch your attempts whenever you want, at any time of the day. You will have to sign up yourself on our competition platform and can then use an invite code to unlock the demo challenges. Once you’ve done so, you can start your attempts at any time.

What Do the Demo Challenges Contain?

The demo challenges include tasks related to the following AWS services:

• EC2: Dealing with auto-scaling and load balancing.
• IAM: Building custom policies to satisfy specific use cases.
• VPC: Creating a basic subnet structure.
• Route 53: Managing DNS records for a hosted zone.
• S3: Deploying a static website with public access.

These tasks are an excerpt from the regional championships 2023 and 2024, providing a relevant practice experience.

Rules and Guidelines

By participating in the demo challenges, you agree to the following rules:

• You must not use the competition platform for any other purposes than the demo challenges.
• You must not use the provided temporary AWS account(s) for any other purpose or intent than working on these tasks.
• You must not willingly abuse or sabotage the competition platform or any of its components.
• You must not cause unnecessary costs within the provided AWS accounts. This includes, but is not limited to, launching unnecessary resources, leaving resources running without need, or using resources in a way that is not intended by the competition tasks. Please note that you do not have to manually delete your resources after you’ve finished your attempt, as the platform will do this for you.

All actions on the competition platform and provided AWS accounts are centrally monitored and logged. Any violation of the rules will result in immediate disqualification from the demo challenges and may result in further consequences.

Should you wish to freely experiment with AWS services, we recommend you to use the AWS Academy Learner Lab instead, which provides you with a free sandbox environment for testing various scenarios. You can find more information here.

How to Receive an Invite Code

To receive an invite code for the demo challenges, please fill out this Google Form. If you sign up for the demo challenges, you will receive an invite code via email. Please note that you currently need to be an apprentice at a Swiss vocational school to be eligible for these training opportunities. In case there are any uncertainties, feel free to contact us at any time.

I Received an Invite Code, What Now?

1. Head over to the competition platform and register yourself with a personal email address. If you participated in last year’s national championships, you can use the same login as you did back then. Please note that former logins starting from 2024 are still valid.
2. After you’ve registered, head to Participations -> Participate…. If you have not completed your user profile yet, this is where you are required to fill in your date of birth, school, and employer. Once you’ve filled out your profile, head to Participations -> Participate… again.
3. You will now be asked to enter an invite code. Please enter the code you received via email and click on Participate.
4. You should now be redirected to the participation overview and can start your first attempt at any time.
5. Once you create an attempt, a fresh instance with its own AWS account will be provisioned for you. After a couple of minutes, the provisioning will complete and you can start your attempt by clicking on Start competition. Your timer will not start until you click on this button. Do NOT leave any attempt in a “Ready” state without starting it, as this will consume resources and cause unnecessary costs.
6. You can now start working on the demo challenges tasks. You have 3 hours for every attempt and can use up to 5 attempts in total.

For further clarification, here is a screenshot of the most important buttons on the competition instance page:

Additional Resources

To prepare for the demo challenges and the actual competition, explore the following resources:

• AWS Academy: Learn foundational AWS skills through structured courses and hands-on sandbox access.
• Sample Tasks: Review example tasks to get an idea of the challenges you might encounter.
• General Description: Detailed information about the competition format, rules, and preparation opportunities.

For a complete overview of all regional training opportunities, visit the Regional Training page.