Curated AWS Project Ideas for Beginners (Simple & Hands-on)

Learn AWS by Doing: Project Ideas

This list provides a springboard for your AWS journey. As you gain confidence, you can explore more complex projects involving databases, serverless architectures, and machine learning

Static Website on AWS S3 & CloudFront

• Learn: S3 storage, CloudFront content delivery network (CDN).
• Do : Upload your existing website or create a simple HTML site. Store it in S3 and configure CloudFront for fast global access
  • Create a simple HTML page or website and host on Amazon S3 bucket. Reference
  • Create a Angular app and host on Amazon S3 bucket
    • Create Angular app reference
    • Host on Amazon S3 bucket
  • Create a React app and host on Amazon S3 bucket
    • Create React app
    • Host on Amazon S3 with CloudFront

Static Website on AWS Amplify

• Learn: Amplify - a framework for building web and mobile apps with AWS.

Simple Blog with AWS Lightsail

• Learn: Lightsail - a pre-configured virtual server service.
• Do: Deploy a popular open-source blogging platform like WordPress on a Lightsail instance. Connect a database and customize the blog.
  • WordPress blog on Lightsail

Business Card Organizer with Textract & S3

• Learn: Amazon Textract, Amazon S3, Python or any other language basic data processing logic(read/write/append).
• Do: Build Business Card Organiser

Youtube to MP3 converter using Lambda and S3 bucket (Serverless) .

• Learn: AWS Lambda
• Do: Youtube to MP3

URL shortener like Bitly.com

• Learn
  • AWS Lambda
  • Amazon API gateway
  • Route 53
  • CloudFront
  • SQS
• Do URL Shortener

Keeping it Simple:

• These projects focus on managed services that require minimal coding, allowing you to learn core AWS concepts without getting bogged down in complex configurations.
• Utilize the free tier offerings of AWS services to keep costs minimal while experimenting.
• Many of these services have user-friendly consoles and tutorials to guide you through the setup process