5 Intermediate AWS Cloud Projects To Get You Hired!

In Today’s Cloudbites:

🎯 5 Intermediate AWS Cloud Projects To Get You Hired!

👩‍💻 A Complete Guide On Building the 5 Projects

☁️ Online Cloud Events to Look Forward to

🤫 PLUS: Meet Codex - AI That Builds For You

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Hi friends, welcome back to Cloudbites

In this newsletter, we’ll talk about 5 Intermediate AWS Cloud projects that you can build and add to your Cloud portfolio. I’ll also share an interesting AI update from OpenAI.

CLOUD COMPUTING ☁️

 🎯 5 Intermediate AWS Cloud Projects To Get You Hired

If you're looking to develop your cloud computing skills and impress potential employers, hands-on projects are a must.

Here are 5 intermediate projects designed to help you demonstrate real-world applications of AWS technologies:

#1 Build an Event Announcement System using SNS, Lambda and API Gateway

This project uses Amazon S3, Lambda, API Gateway, and SNS to build a simple event announcement system.

Users can view events, subscribe via email, and submit new events through a web form. New submissions update a JSON file in S3 and trigger email alerts via SNS.

Perfect for learning full-stack serverless development with minimal setup.

Est time: 2-3 hours

#2 Build a Serverless Data Pipeline Using S3, Lambda, Glue & QuickSight

In this project, you’ll build a fully automated pipeline to process and visualize CSV data using AWS Serverless services.

When a CSV file is uploaded to Amazon S3, an AWS Lambda function is triggered to clean and format the data. AWS Glue then performs deeper ETL operations, and the final output is stored in S3 for visualization in Amazon QuickSight.

This project is ideal for understanding real-world data workflows—from ingestion to dashboard.

Est time: 3–4 hours

#3 Build an Automated Receipt Processing System Using Textract, S3, Lambda & DynamoDB

Amazon S3 stores uploaded receipt images, which trigger a Lambda function. The function uses Amazon Textract to extract structured data and saves it to DynamoDB. Optionally, Amazon SES sends a notification with the receipt summary.

This project streamlines data extraction for expense tracking and auditing.

Est time: 2 hours

#4 Build a Serverless Cloud Dictionary Using Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB & Amplify

This project uses 4 AWS services: AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and AWS Amplify.

Search for a cloud term in the React frontend to fetch its definition from DynamoDB via a serverless API built with Lambda and API Gateway..

This project is great for learning serverless architectures, and can also be expanded into a collaborative glossary or onboarding tool for tech teams.

Est time: 2-3 hours

#5 Deploy a Two-Tier Web App Using EC2, RDS, and ALB

In this project, you’ll deploy a scalable to-do list web app using a classic two-tier architecture on AWS.

Amazon EC2 hosts both the frontend and backend, Amazon RDS (MySQL) handles data storage and an Application Load Balancer (ALB) distributes traffic.

You'll also configure networking with Amazon VPC and apply IAM roles and security groups for secure access.

This project is ideal for learning how to run production-grade apps on AWS with high availability and scalability.

Est time: 2–3 hours

👩‍💻 A Complete Guide On Building the 5 Projects

Like the sound of these 5 projects but not sure where to start?

Check out my YouTube video on 5 Intermediate AWS Cloud Projects To Get You Hired where I dive deeper into each project.

I also have a guidebook with step-by-step tutorials you can follow along for each project.

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🤫 PLUS: Meet Codex - AI That Builds For You

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Codex is designed to speed up development by automating routine programming tasks inside a secure sandbox environment preloaded with your codebase.

💡 Here’s what you should know:

• Codex is designed to speed up development by automating routine programming tasks inside a secure sandbox environment preloaded with your codebase.

• It explains every step of its process using logs, test outputs, and inline reasoning

• Available to ChatGPT Pro, Team, and Enterprise users during the research preview, with flexible pricing coming later

• You can review, revise, or open GitHub pull requests directly from its output interface

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