1st Place:$5,000 USD Cash Prize + Amazon Echos(Up to 5) + DevNetwork Premium All-Access Passes to all 2024 virtual conferences + Announcement in DeveloperWeek email to 60,000 subscribers listing your team and project. Plus, $5,000 worth of essential developer tools (GitHub, etc) and complimentary CodeCrafters memberships. All Values of the amazon echo prizes will be sent at USD
2nd Place:$3,000 cash USD Cash Prize
3rd Place:$2,500 Cash Prize

In this challenge, participants are invited to harness the cutting-edge power of Amazon Bedrock generative AI alongside the dynamic capabilities of LaunchDarkly feature flags to create innovative applications that push the boundaries of technology.

Use Amazon Bedrock generative AI:

Your task is to develop an application that taps into Amazon Bedrock generative AI capabilities and LaunchDarkly feature flags to enhance the user experience. Utilize any of the foundational models provided by Bedrock to infuse your application with intelligent and creative capabilities. Whether you're generating text, images, music, or even code, let your imagination run wild.

Integrate LaunchDarkly feature flags into your application to:

Enable dynamic, real-time modification of experimental generative AI features on the fly.
Seamless A/B testing or experimentation.
Managing targeted entitlements within your application.
Or whatever other creative feature flag uses you can think of!

Your application can serve any purpose or solve any problem, but to qualify for prizes, it must leverage both Amazon Bedrock generative AI and LaunchDarkly feature flags. We're looking for creativity, innovation, and technical prowess in your implementation of Bedrock and LaunchDarkly within your application.

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Judging Criteria:

Creativity and Innovation: Does the application do something unique and innovative and/or utilize Amazon Bedrock and LaunchDarkly feature flags in a creative way?
Level of Completion: How well-developed and polished is your application? Have you fully integrated Bedrock and LaunchDarkly features?
Use of Bedrock and LaunchDarkly: How effectively have you utilized the capabilities of Amazon Bedrock generative AI and LaunchDarkly feature flags to enhance your application? Are you showcasing the full potential of these technologies?

We can't wait to see what groundbreaking applications you'll create using the power of Amazon Bedrock and LaunchDarkly.

Resources:

Amazon Bedrock:
Amazon Bedrock Developer Experience: https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/developer-experience/
Introduction to Amazon Bedrock: https://youtu.be/ab1mbj0acDo
Getting started workshop: https://catalog.us-east-1.prod.workshops.aws/workshops/a4bdb007-5600-4368-81c5-ff5b4154f518/en-US
Amazon Bedrock Resources: https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/resources/
Prompt engineering guidelines: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/prompt-engineering-guidelines.html
Knowledge bases for Amazon Bedrock: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/knowledge-base.html
Agents for Amazon Bedrock: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/agents.html
Sample codes: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/service_code_examples.html
QuickStart PoC: https://github.com/aws-samples/genai-quickstart-pocs

LaunchDarkly:

Getting started documentation: https://docs.launchdarkly.com/home/getting-started
Getting started with experimentation: https://docs.launchdarkly.com/home/about-experimentation
Using LaunchDarkly for entitlements: https://docs.launchdarkly.com/guides/flags/entitlements

1st Place - Github Prize Pack - $200 Cash Value

AWS/LaunchDarkly Hackathon Challenge - Generative AI + Feature Flags

Team of all students - High school, college or university, or bootcamp (need proof of enrollment or student email)

First Place - $2,500 USD
Every application needs data, even when integrating AI, and Convex offers a powerful backend-as-a-service for builders. Integrating Convex is easy via their client libraries for Python, Rust, React and JavaScript. Hackathon participants who integrate Convex as their backend infrastructure within their application qualify for an additional prize.

First Place - $2,500 USD

Yes, even AI applications need backend data, and Convex fits this requirement perfectly. As you build your Bedrock application, there are a number of ways you can integrate Convex to enhance your user experience. This challenge prize will be awarded to the team that creates the most compelling combination of Bedrock’s AI with Convex’s backend-as-a-service.