AWS Prompt the Planet Challenge
AWS
📌 About the Event
Presented by DoraHacks in partnership with Amazon Web Services, the AWS Prompt the Planet Challenge is a global, virtual open ended optimization sprint. The hackathon targets prompt engineers, cloud architects, and developers, challenging them to design highly structured, production-grade LLM prompts that simplify, automate, or secure infrastructure deployments on AWS.
ℹ️ PORTAL OVERVIEW
- Host Platform: DoraHacks (100% Online / Global).
- Total Prize Pool: $50,000 USD in AWS Activate Credits + Global Developer Visibility.
- Target Audience: Open globally to all skill levels students, DevOps engineers, founders, researchers, and cloud hobbyists alike.
- Submission Metric: Multiple submissions are explicitly encouraged. You can target several cloud bottlenecks to scale your chances of winning.
🎯 WHAT YOU NEED TO ENGINEER
The judging panel is looking for robust, deterministic, and clear prompts (designed for systems like Claude, GPT, or Amazon Bedrock) that abstract complex AWS cloud engineering tasks into seamless self-service interactions.
Key Focal Areas:
- Prompts That Simplify: System instructions that help novice or experienced builders deploy complex infrastructure cleanly without configuration drift.
- Solutions for Enterprise Frictions: Automated prompts tackling cloud cost optimization, continuous integration pipelines, IAM security baselines, serverless routing, or heavy data handling.
- Clear & Actionable Formats: Prompts must guide the LLM to output step-by-step instructions, infrastructure as code snippets (Terraform, CloudFormation), examples, and troubleshooting variables.
💡 Production Grade Examples from the AWS Prompt Library:
- Day 1 AWS Foundation Setup: Multi-account structural alignment via self-service AI prompts.
- MVSP-Compliant Infrastructure Builder: Prompts that configure workloads to pass enterprise security audits automatically.
- Karpenter + KEDA Cost-Optimized EKS: Provisioning high availability Kubernetes clusters utilizing Spot instances and event-driven auto-scaling through natural language commands.
- AWS Security Baseline Terraform Kit: Guiding an LLM to generate secure, air-gapped Terraform deployment modules in minutes.
🏆 THE BOUNTY & VISIBILITY PERKS
- 💰 Main Rewards: 10 Winners will be selected, each receiving $5,000 in AWS Activate Credits to fund their personal startups, projects, or API test environments.
- 📢 Developer Spotlight: Winning prompts secure a featured, high-exposure placement inside the official AWS Startups Prompt Library, exposed directly to hundreds of thousands of active cloud developers globally.