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Workshops, community notes, roadmaps, and backtests from Financial Cloud Cloud.

Kiro workshop
01 Build with Kiro: Prompt-First Product Design for a Tagalog Learning App Kiro workshop
02 Build with Kiro: Educational-First Dev Tips for a Tagalog Learning App Kiro workshop
03 Build with Kiro: Deep-Dive Development Flow for a Tagalog Learning App Kiro workshop
04 Build with Kiro: Localize a Tagalog Learning App into Chinese Variants Workshop Kiro workshop
05 Build with Kiro: Grammar and Pronunciation Enrichment Pipeline for Tagalog Cards Workshop Kiro workshop
06 Build with Kiro: Unique and Reviewable Extra Examples in a Tagalog Learning App Workshop Kiro workshop
07 Build with Kiro: Factory Engineering Health Hooks Workshop Kiro workshop
08 Build with Kiro: Etch Process Window Risk Test Automation Workshop Kiro workshop
09 Build with Kiro: Photolithography Drift Risk Development Workshop Kiro workshop
10 Engineering Team Get Started — Daily Fab-Duty Use of fab spc drift sync portal Kiro workshop
11 Engineering Team Addendum — Daily Fab-Duty Use of fab spc drift sync portal Kiro workshop
12 Kiro: Field Engineering Workshop for Spec-Driven Factory Software Kiro workshop
13 Kiro: Hands-On Lab — Build a Typed Factory Risk Portal from Scratch Kiro workshop
14 Kiro: Prompt, Code, and Type Standards Playbook for Engineering Developers Kiro workshop
15 Kiro: Why a Strong React Prompt Prevents Type Declaration False-Starts Kiro workshop
17 Build with Kiro: Create a Factory Automation Portal React UI Kiro workshop
18 Build with Kiro: Create the Automation Analytics Engine Behind a Factory Automation Portal Kiro workshop
19 Build with Kiro: Add an AI Factory Automation Assistant to a Factory Automation Portal Kiro workshop
21 Kiro: 2-Hour Professional Developer Workshop Guide Kiro workshop
22 Kiro: Build the Fab SPC Drift Synchronization Portal from Scratch Kiro workshop
23 Kiro: Prompt Library and Deep Code Explanation Appendix Kiro workshop
30 Build with Kiro: Create a Factory Automation Portal UI Kiro workshop
31 Build with Kiro: Create the Automation Analytics Engine Behind a Factory Automation Portal Kiro workshop
32 Build with Kiro: Add an AI Factory Automation Assistant to a Factory Automation Portal Kiro workshop
33 Build with Kiro: Rebuild the CME Direct-Style Quant P&L Leaderboard UI Kiro workshop
34 Build with Kiro: Recreate the Quant Analytics Engine Behind the P&L Board Kiro workshop
35 Build with Kiro: AWS AI-Powered Trading Desk Assistant for the Quant Board Kiro workshop
36 One-Page Trading Portal SOP Kiro workshop

AgentCore
A1 Build with AgentCore & Strands: Gateway MCP Tool Fabric Developer Workshop AgentCore
A2 Build with AgentCore & Strands: Governed Multi-Agent Risk System Developer Workshop AgentCore
A3 Build with AgentCore & Strands: Runtime Sovereign Risk Agent Developer Workshop AgentCore

Exam practice
E1 Build a Multilingual AWS Exam Practice Launch System with Vibe Coding Exam practice
E2 Build an AWS Exam Practice Room with Vibe Coding Dev Tips Exam practice
E3 Build the Practice Engine Behind a Static AWS Exam Room Exam practice
E4 Cloud Operations 520 questions across five CloudOps domains.
E5 AI Development 20 questions on building and operating AI workloads on AWS.
E6 FSI Macro Trading 380 questions on macro trading desks and cloud-backed FSI paths.
E7 FSI Trading Desk Design 680 questions on designing an FSI trading desk on AWS.
E8 Networking Core 98 questions on VPC, connectivity, and secure network design.
E9 Generative AI Dev Organization 80 questions on organizing generative AI development with Bedrock.
E10 Machine Learning 460 questions on data preparation, modeling, and ML operations.
E11 Certified Data 82 rewritten data-exam questions across ingest, store, process, and analyze.

Amazon Q
Q1 Amazon Q: CloudShell-First Developer Workshop for ACM Certificate Auto Renewal Amazon Q

Tagalog Practice Room
T1 Build a Tagalog Learning App for AWS Manila Community Day with Prompt-First Product Design Tagalog Practice Room
T2 Build Tagalog Learning App for AWS Manila Community Day with Educational-First Dev Tips Tagalog Practice Room
T3 Deep Dive Development Flow for a Tagalog Learning App for AWS Manila Community Day Tagalog Practice Room
T4 Build Localize a Tagalog Learning App into Chinese Variants for AWS Manila Community Day Tagalog Practice Room
T5 Build a Grammar and Pronunciation Enrichment Pipeline for Tagalog Cards for AWS Manila Community Day Tagalog Practice Room
T6 Make Extra Examples Unique and Reviewable in a Tagalog Learning App for AWS Manila Community Day Tagalog Practice Room

Roadmap
R1 Enterprise Data Analytics Roadmap: 100 Deep Scenario Questions Roadmap
R2 Front-End Development Roadmap: Real-World Enterprise Scenarios Roadmap

Hong Kong Community Day
C1 A Hong Kong Weekend with AWS Community Day: From Cloud Sessions to Harbour Lights Hong Kong Community Day
C2 The Speaker’s Luxury Weekend: Present an AWS Story, Then Let Hong Kong Take the Stage Hong Kong Community Day
C3 Seventy-Two Hours in Hong Kong: The Grand Tour for an AWS Community Day Speaker Hong Kong Community Day

Manila Community Day
C4 AWS Community Day Manila: A Joyful Weekend of Cloud, Culture, and True Friendship Manila Community Day
C5 AWS Community Day Manila: Where Cloud Builders Find the Happiest Spirit of the Philippines Manila Community Day
C6 AWS Community Day Manila: Build, Break, Repeat, and Belong in a City of Joy Manila Community Day
C7 First-Time Visitor Tips for Manila, Philippines Manila Community Day

Philippines × Hong Kong
C8 Philippines Hong Kong Capital Market Upgrade Philippines × Hong Kong

Backtest
B1 Build Institutional Amazon Long-Only Backtesting Agents With Bedrock AgentCore And Strands Agents Long-only AMZN agents with AgentCore, Strands, and a governed Backtrader ledger.
B2 Build Regime-Aware Amazon Position Management With Backtrader, AgentCore, And Strands Agents Treat market regime as a position control, not a chart comment.
B3 Build Benchmark-Relative Amazon Timing Systems Using Nasdaq, S&P 500, Dow, AgentCore, And Strands Time AMZN against Nasdaq, S&P 500, and Dow context.
B4 Build A Governed Amazon Trade-History Factory With Bedrock AgentCore, Strands Agents, And Backtrader Turn backtests into an auditable trade-history factory.
B5 Build An Agentic Amazon Backtest Operating Model With Bedrock AgentCore And Strands Agents [Part 1] Build the operating model before debating the result.
B6 Build A Custom Cerebro Code Talk For Amazon Timing And Position Management [Part 2] Explain the Cerebro engine before explaining the chart.
B7 Build Trader Review Records For Amazon Strategy Results And Lessons Learned [Part 3] Turn strategy ranks into trader review records.
B8 Build A Governed FSI Amazon Position Management Playbook With AgentCore And Strands [Part 4] An FSI playbook for governed Amazon position management.
B9 Build a Sovereign Risk Trading Agent with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore for Yield Spreads, FX Hedging, and Debt Repricing Sovereign-risk agent for yield spreads, FX hedges, and debt repricing.
B11 Build Modern Volatility Trading & Lawful Thailand Recovery Planning Agents: A Memory-Driven Strands Multi-Agent Risk Protection System Memory-driven Strands agents for volatility and Thailand recovery.
B12 Build Short Straddle Trading-Risk Governance with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory Short-straddle risk governance with AgentCore Memory.
B13 Building Production-Ready Credit & Yield Staking AI Agents on Amazon EKS Production credit and yield-staking agents on Amazon EKS.

Challenge
01 Weekend Productivity Challenge: Fab SPC Drift Synchronization Portal Fab SPC drift review and recommendation portal.
02 Weekend Productivity Challenge: Quant P&L Commander — An AI-Powered Trading Productivity Portal on AWS Quant P&L leaderboard and trading productivity portal.
03 Weekend Annoying Task Challenge: Trading Desk Execute Summary On Cloud, On Chain, On Air DeskPulse daily execution communication.
04 Weekend Agent Challenge: The 6 AM Trading Risk Review An unattended, evidence-backed morning credit and trading risk brief.
05 Weekend Creative Challenge: Leadership Card Game A browser-based creative facilitation deck.
06 Full Stack Challenge: Community Day Board App A browser-based event communication room.

Leadership Card Game
01 Leadership Card Game: Last Skill Cloud Did Not Automate A field essay for Builders on language, courage, and the Leadership Card Game
02 Anatomy of a Leadership Round: How the Leadership Card Game Actually Plays A facilitator’s field guide for Builders who want drills that fit inside real meetings
03 Leadership Card Game: When the Opportunity Stops Belonging to the Organizer A field essay for Builders on power transfer, multilingual practice nights, and career arcs that complete Entrance, Resource, and Narrative
04 Weekend Creative Challenge: Leadership Card Game Master high-stakes workplace conversations before they happen. The Leadership Card Game delivers immediate, practical value by replacing vague advice with…
05 From a Weekend Challenge Project to $1,386 Crowdfunding: The Leadership Practice That Changes How You Show Up at Work Description: A weekend build became a live 600-card leadership practice room and reached $1,386 in crowdfunding. Discover how Working Backwards, Leadership…
06 From a Weekend Challenge Project to $1,386 Crowdfunding: A Day 1 Path Into the Tech Industry Description: How did a weekend challenge become a multilingual AWS-powered product with 600 cards and $1,386 in crowdfunding? Follow a practical Day 1 path…
07 From a Weekend Challenge Project to $1,386 Crowdfunding: Build a Professional Brand by Transferring Opportunity Description: A weekend challenge reached $1,386 in crowdfunding by turning leadership ideas into a working multilingual product. Learn how customer problems…
08 Leadership Card Game — Crowdfunding Campaign Speak leadership before the room decides your career.
09 PR/FAQ 01 — Leadership Card Game launches for community builders Working Backwards document · External press release + FAQ Product: Leadership Card Game Audience: Community managers, volunteer organizers, early-career…
10 PR/FAQ 02 — Enterprise facilitators adopt Leadership Card Game for live leadership drills Working Backwards document · External press release + FAQ Product: Leadership Card Game Audience: Learning & development leads, people managers, agile…
10 PR/FAQ 03 — Multilingual Leadership Card Game opens global practice rooms for builder ownership Working Backwards document · External press release + FAQ Product: Leadership Card Game Audience: Global AWS builders, bilingual communities, cross-border…

AWS Builder Center
01 AWS Builder Center, its community spirit, and AWS Builder Jacket There are destinations you reach by plane, destinations you enter through a door, and destinations that begin with a sign-in screen and quickly feel like a…
02 Inside AWS Builder Center, where a global technical platform becomes a place to learn, contribute, and belong A great journey does not always begin at an airport. Sometimes it begins with a profile, an article, and the unexpected discovery that people around the world…
03 AWS Community Builder huge success AWS Community Builder huge success starts with a powerful idea: when builders share openly, the entire community moves forward.
04 AWS Builder Center huge success AWS Builder Center huge success feels less like a website and more like a vibrant global district built for curiosity. Articles become avenues for discovery…
05 A weekend inside AWS Builder Center, from community inspiration to unmistakable AWS Builder Jacket Friday evening begins with a familiar builder feeling: there is an idea waiting somewhere between a problem and a possibility.

Creators

Create community

Stories and facilitator notes on building a community that can ship.

Ferryboat Computer Club
01 The Old Computer Room in the Rainy Season A rainy evening in the old high-school computer clubroom.
02 Winter Recruitment Day Winter recruitment starts with an old laptop on a folding table.
03 The Nameless Project After graduation, Peter, David, and Tommy start a nameless project.
04 It Began with an Unsigned Letter An unsigned letter pulls them into digital-community safety work.
05 An Invitation Without a Destination A coastal library asks them to rebuild an unused ferry waiting room.
06 The Clock That Lost Three Minutes Every Day Aoi leads youth governance as a tide clock loses three minutes a day.
07 The Folder Nobody Dared to Delete Nobody dares delete a seven-year folder of community records.
08 Drafts in the Outbox A new team runs the center; old drafts stay in the outbox.
09 The Door That Would Not Open The unused second floor will not open without a spare key and rules.
10 An Extra Line on the Wall A hidden waterline on the wall becomes a public tide-mark map.
11 The Broadcast with No Speaker Echo Pier sends public messages only when they are truly needed.
12 The Gate That Closed by Itself A self-closing gate tests automated riverfront governance.
13 This series begins in a high school computer club and gradually… A recap from school club to city infrastructure.

The Courage to Deliver
00 Greetings, my friend. I am Alfred Adler. Adler reads a delivery task that grew into a workplace drama.
01 The “Just a Delivery Worker” Terror Ava fears being seen as just a delivery worker.
02 The Architecture of Compensation: Why We Over-Design Fear of being small leads her to over-design titles and systems.
03 The Empathy Trap: Protection vs. Truth Lucia’s protection can become a soft cage instead of truth.
04 The Cold Mirror: Surviving the Cruel Critics Cold critics ignore effort and only reflect the work.
05 The Courage to Be Ordinary Courage is accepting ordinary work without a grand identity.
06 From Activity to Contribution Activity is not the same as real contribution.
07 The Lean Sandbox: MVP for the Soul Practice in a small sandbox before building an empire.
08 The Art of Tactical Stealth Stay close to the work without needing to be the center.

Behind Courage to Deliver
01 COO Perspective: Psychological, Organizational, and Performance… A COO reviews the AI-swag case as organization and psychology.
02 COO Perspective: Psychological and Performance Analysis of AI Swag A manager outsources a new AI side project to a 23-year-old.
03 COO Perspective: Role Misalignment and Psychological Defense When… Startup talk meets big-company thinking, and roles go out of place.
04 Why did a simple swag-fulfillment logistics task get inflated by Ava… A simple swag delivery is inflated into a four-rank organization.
05 COO 50-Year Lens: Deep Review of Leo’s Psychology, Critical… Leo blocks Noah after impatient, defensive replies.
06 This is a deep audit from a COO with 50 years of commercial combat… A spectator and a practitioner talk past each other.
07 I will re-analyze against your latest factual corrections. I will… Nobody here is a formal stakeholder; they are only chatting.
08 Why do Leo and Ava focus on “managing people” and “managing work”? Leo and Ava manage people and tasks because that is what they can show.
09 Leo is an IT uncle who sees through how society works, and still… Leo stays gentle with Ava and thinks Mia’s knife is too cold.
10 COO Perspective: Psychological, Organizational, and Performance… A recap of the COO series on the swag-outsourcing case.

Qualified Facilitator
01 Become a Qualified Facilitator: Social Architect Foundation Think like a social architect, not only a meeting host.
02 Become a Qualified Facilitator: Psychological Safety And Comfortable… Build psychological safety before asking leaders to network.
03 Become a Qualified Facilitator: Structured Sessions Over Room-Working Replace aimless room-working with short structured sessions.
04 Become a Qualified Facilitator: Conversation Starters, Icebreakers… Open useful talk with purpose, not generic small talk.
05 Become a Qualified Facilitator: Hot Seat Mastermind Script Run a hot-seat mastermind that stays warm and safe.
06 Become a Qualified Facilitator: Physical Touchpoints, Executive… Use the room, materials, and closing gifts to make the night valuable.

Power Game
01 Power Dynamics and Academic Mechanism Design in the Asia-Pacific… In an Asia-Pacific tech sandbox, power flows through rules, not orders.
02 Cooperative Geopolitics of the Asia-Pacific Decentralized Technology… Cross-border tech cooperation is joint competition without a headquarters.

CloudOps Ambassador
01 Vertex Macro CloudOps Ambassador Side Project Join our elite developer CloudOps journey.

Creators

Tagalog lessons

Sentence lessons for community day, daily life, and clear conversation.

Community Day
01 Community Day: Greetings and Respectful Introductions Good morning, I am Martinez.
02 Community Day: Directions, Venue, and Registration Where is the registration desk?
03 Community Day: Workshop Questions and Hands-On Learning May I ask a question about the lab?
04 Community Day: Networking, Connect, and Belong I would like to connect with cloud builders.
05 Community Day: Volunteers, Waiting, Time, and Goodbye Thank you for guiding the queue.
06 Community Day: One Question, One Clear Answer May I ask one clear question about the keynote?
07 Community Day: Friends, Teams, and Clear Boundaries Are we in the same workshop group?
08 Community Day: What I Value and Choose to Learn This community is important to me.
09 Community Day: Honest Questions and Deep Learning Feelings I honestly want to learn cloud.
10 Community Day: Distance, Hope, and Learning Promises Even after the event, let us stay connected.
11 Community Day: Honest Questions and Clear Answers May I ask one clear question about the keynote?

Friendship
12 Friendship: Devotion, Care, and Everyday Support Are we still just friends?
13 Friendship: Boundaries and Gentle Feelings I miss you, but I will be patient.
14 Friendship: Distance, Patience, and Hope I choose to care for you every day.
15 Friendship: Trust, Future, and Daily Affection I trust you with my heart.
16 Friendship: Honest Love, Loyalty, and Gentle Pain When I love, I try to be sincere.
17 Friendship: One Question and Clear Feelings I have one clear question.
18 Friendship: Devotion, Trust, and Lasting Affection Ask me anything about my heart.
19 Friendship: Deep Love, Pain, and Healthy Promises I love deeply, but I also need respect.

Manila Daily
20 Manila Daily: Greetings, Commute, and Directions Good morning, I am going to work.
21 Manila Daily: Food, Markets, and Shopping I would like to order breakfast.
22 Manila Daily: Home, Laundry, Bills, and Errands I need to do laundry today.
23 Manila Daily: Work, Study, and Social Plans I have work today.
24 Manila Daily: Health, Safety, Weather, and Money It is raining hard.

Trader Hub

Hedge fund podcast

Notes from capital-markets conversations on AWS.

01 AWS Hedge Fund Innovation Day AWS Hong Kong for Capital Markets. 3 July 2025.

Shareholder letters

Eight letters. One investment discipline.

Each letter explains market thinking, trading action, and the next governed decision.

01 Risk Is a Path, Not a Number January 31, 2026. Vertex Macro began the year by protecting the ability to make the next decision. Risk is a path through energy, rates, funding, and correlation—not a single number.

02 Carry Is Earned by Surviving Repricing February 28, 2026. Carry is not free income. It is compensation for remaining solvent and patient while rates, spreads, and liquidity reprice fixed-income cash flows.

03 Correlation Must Be Verified March 31, 2026. Diversification is a state-dependent claim, not an asset-label property. Gold, bonds, and credit change roles with the shock, financing, and marginal seller.

04 The Difference Between a View and a Trade April 30, 2026. A correct macro observation does not automatically produce a profitable trade. Valuation, timing, positioning, financing, and execution fill the gap.

05 Small Profit, Large Information May 31, 2026. This letter addresses the smallest number in our reporting and the largest temptation in investment communication: making a result sound more meaningful than it is.

06 What We Refused to Trade June 30, 2026. Investment letters usually discuss owned positions. This one discusses rejected trades, because saying no preserves capital, attention, and capacity.

07 A Post-Mortem Without Excuses July 31, 2026. A post-mortem has value only if it changes future behavior. This letter reviews where the process was incomplete even though the result stayed slightly positive.

08 The Next Ninety Days August 31, 2026. The next ninety days will be managed as conditional decisions, not a single forecast—exposed to compensated risk without turning a market error into permanent impairment.