AWS Community GameDay Europe - March 17th 2026

AWS Community GameDay Europe is coming!
Strategy. Fun. Collaboration.

We will join ~50 User Groups across Europe for a unique event: an international, synchronized AWS Community GameDay, powered by the European AWS community.
🧩 A custom set of challenges makes this GameDay one of a kind.
Get hands-on with AI, security and cloud-native challenges — no slides, no tutorials. A common scoreboard with global and local prices.

Come with a friend, a team, or solo - we’ll form teams of 2 to 4 people on site.

What is an AWS GameDay?
An AWS GameDay is a team-based, competitive learning experience that transforms cloud training into an immersive, high-energy event. Unlike traditional workshops where participants follow step-by-step instructions, GameDay drops teams into a live AWS environment with real infrastructure—often broken, misconfigured, or under attack—and challenges them to figure out solutions on their own.

What makes it a unique experience

• No step-by-step guides—teams must explore, experiment, and problem-solve
• Real AWS accounts provided by AWS, with actual running infrastructure (EC2, Lambda, S3, databases)
• Time pressure creates urgency and forces prioritization decisions
• Competitive leaderboard visible to all teams drives engagement
• Points lost for poor decisions (overspending, downtime, security gaps) teach consequences

Format
Teams of 2-4 people compete over 2 hours. Each team receives access to their own AWS environment with pre-deployed infrastructure.

⚠️⚠️⚠️ BRING YOUR OWN LAPTOP ⚠️⚠️⚠️

Registration closing on March 15th!!!

AGENDA
📅 Tuesday, March 17th
🕔 18:00 Doors open (note: one hour later than normally)
👥 18:45 Teams composition
🚀 19:00 Game starts! All locations connected live across Europe, we’ll kick off together, on time.
🏅 21:30 Global and local winners with prices

📍 Crazy Town Jyväskylä

Compete live with AWS User Groups across Europe, all playing the same scenario at the same time.

Full list of locations:
https://www.awsgameday.eu/

NOTE: if you join our meetup group for the first time, remember also to reply to this event RSVP! Attendees that didn't registered properly providing the required information cannot participate to the game (we/AWS need time to prepare cloud environments)