AWS GameDay 2026

AWS Community GameDay Europe
We will join 55+ 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 up 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 with actual running infrastructure (EC2, Lambda, S3, databases)
• Time pressure creates urgency and forces prioritization decisions
• A competitive leaderboard visible to all teams drives engagement
• Points lost for poor decisions (overspending, downtime, security gaps) teach consequences

Format
Teams of up to four people compete over a period of 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
🕔 17:30 Doors open
👥 17:45 Teams composition
🚀 18:00 Game starts! All locations are connected live across Europe, and we’ll kick off together on time.
🏅 21:00 Global and local winners with prices
📍 Semos Education, Parking garage, Solunski Kongres #11, 1000, Skopje 1000 (parking available on-site)
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 who didn't register properly providing the required information, cannot participate in the game (we/AWS need time to prepare cloud environments)