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AWS Portfolio Project Ideas

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Your Experience Level

Target Role

3 Project Ideas for Cloud Engineer — Beginner

Serverless Contact Form

Build a website contact form that emails you submissions using Lambda and SES—no servers to manage.

Beginner

LambdaSESAPI GatewayS3

2–3 hours

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Static Website on S3 + CloudFront

Deploy a personal portfolio site to S3, serve it globally via CloudFront, and add a custom domain with Route 53.

Beginner

S3CloudFrontRoute 53ACM

2–4 hours

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URL Shortener with DynamoDB

Create a serverless URL shortener: API Gateway routes requests, Lambda handles logic, DynamoDB stores short codes.

Beginner

LambdaDynamoDBAPI Gateway

3–5 hours

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