We are excited to be a community partner for AWS Community Day Mumbai 2026! 🚀

📅 17 October 2026 | 📍 Nesco Grande, Mumbai.
🔗 Conference details: https://acd.awsugmum.in/

Cloud builders, AWS Heroes, Community Builders, and technology leaders are coming together for a day of talks, hands-on workshops, and real AWS stories across cloud-native, data, and GenAI.

We are giving away ONE FREE TICKET to a student registering for Bharat Build Tour: https://www.wemakedevs.org/aws

Not the lucky one? Use code wemakedevs for 15% off your ticket!

I failed JEE twice and thought my career was over. A YouTube video from Kota had told me it was IIT or nothing.

Here's what I did instead, and the biggest opportunity for every student in India right now: https://lnkd.in/p/eWxKdahn

🚨 Get your ticket for Bharat Builds Tour NOW!

The tour has prizes worth ₹1 crore up for grabs, top students get fast tracked interviews for Amazon internships and full time roles (no screening round), work alongside AWS Developers, receive developer gadgets and more.

🏃 Get yours at https://www.wemakedevs.org/aws

Once you've generated your ticket, share it on your socials using #bharatbuilds and don't forget to tag us and AWS Developers.

We're hosting the first in-person edition of the Bharat Builds Tour in Bangalore city 🚀

👨‍💻 Event Name: First Commit
📍 Venue: Polaris School of Technology
📆 Date: September 19

If you're a student who wants to build a insightful project, this is the day to show up. Build projects offline, attend AWS workshops, get live feedback by AWS experts, and talk to the Amazon team building the services you're using.

🚀 Top projects winners can skip screening rounds and get fast-track interviews at Amazon for internships and full-time roles.

⏳ Seats are limited, apply FAST to attend: https://luma.com/first-commit

#bharatbuilds

Learning cloud and AI can quickly turn into a cycle of watching tutorials, trying new tools, and wondering where to actually begin building.

With the Bharat Builds Tour, we’re creating a space for university students across India to learn by building real projects, with access to AWS experts, hands-on resources, and a community of other builders.

We published a blog on why building is often the best way to learn and how you can get started with the Bharat Builds Tour.

Read the blog: https://www.wemakedevs.org/blogs/bharat-builds-cloud-and-ai

Announcing the Agent Harness Hackathon winners! 🏆

Here are the winners who stood out with their projects and made an impact:

🏆 Elijah Umana
Best Use of TrueFoundry → NVIDIA DGX Spark

📱 Nelson Lai
Best Code Quality Qodo → Mac Mini

🎧 Biswajeet Sahoo & Priyanshu Kiran Solanki
Best Use of Bright Data → Apple AirPods

Huge congratulations to all our winners, and thank you to everyone who built with us! 🚀

Ready to build something of your own? Explore the Bharat Builds Tour: https://www.wemakedevs.org/aws

Amazon Is Hiring. Your College Tier Doesn't Matter: https://lnkd.in/p/eddRaHSC

Announcing the Into the Scrape-Verse winners! 🕷️🏆

Here are the projects that stood out:
🏆 Nitish Mane
Grand Prize → NVIDIA DGX Spark

🔬 Ben O'Connor, Gracelyn N. & Hugh Hoford
Best Use of Bright Data → NVIDIA DGX Spark

📱 Himanshu Jha
Best UI → Apple iPad

Huge congratulations to all our winners, and thank you to everyone who built with us! 🚀

A big shoutout to our sponsors Bright Data, Port, and SigNoz for making this hackathon possible. 🙌

Ready to build? Explore the Bharat Builds Tour: https://www.wemakedevs.org/aws

What does it take to win an Amazon hackathon and turn your development skills into a 6-month internship?

I sat down with team HackOGs, one of the winning teams at Amazon HackOn, to find out.

In this episode:
🛠️ Their experience with hackathons so far
🏆 The strategies that helped them win
🎯 Tips for students who want to get started
⚖️ How they balance hackathons with college life
🔄 What to do if you're not from a computer science background

Watch: https://x.com/kunalstwt/status/2098401167734665594
Got questions? Leave those in the comments.

Every student needs a home base of resources, and for Bharat Build Tour that's AWS Builder Center. It's FREE, no credit card needed, and takes about two minutes to sign up.

Once you're verified as a student, you unlock hands-on AWS workshops, $100 in AWS credits, free 8-hour sandbox environments to experiment in without needing your own AWS account, curated learning paths, and a public builder profile.

Set this up before 17th to get straight into building for the First Commit hackathon: https://www.wemakedevs.org/aws/first-commit

Hey everyone ❤️

Thanks for being part of this community. We're growing fast and there's a lot coming your way.

Today I want to talk about judging ✅

We're launching a new judging portal on Monday. Scores, comments, and who all the judges are, everything publicly visible in one place. We've built our own SaaS platform for this, moving away from Google Sheets, so the whole process is way more streamlined going forward.

All projects are already up on our website. For our previous events, judging was done by our sponsors, we'll also be uploading their scores and comments on why those projects won, so you can go check those out.

We're also opening a feedback portal on our website. If you've got thoughts on how we can make events better, we want them.

The website is now home for everything, projects, judging, scores, feedback. Discord stays our space for the community and for talking to you directly.

Thanks for building with us. A lot more is coming.

10,000+ students have already registered for the Bharat Builds Tour, India’s largest nationwide student hackathon series, in collaboration with AWS Builder Center 🇮🇳

We’re bringing incredible opportunities to students across India with prizes worth ₹1 crore, fast-track interview opportunities with Amazon, the chance to build alongside AWS Developers.

First Commit, the first offline edition of the Bharat Builds Tour, is happening on 19th September in Bengaluru.

Register NOW at https://luma.com/first-commit

20 LAKHS worth in prizes for First Commit Hackathon, part of the Bharat Builds Tour.

- Ship It, first prize: 2 lakh cash + $3,000 in AWS credits
- Build It, second prize: 1.5 lakh cash + $2,000 in AWS credits
- Best UI, third prize: 1 lakh cash + $3,000 in AWS credits

Top projects gets a fast-tracked interview at Amazon, for full-time roles and internships both.

Bring your idea, your team, and your laptop. Build something real, ship it, and see where it takes you: https://www.wemakedevs.org/aws/first-commit

In Bangalore? Join us in-person: https://luma.com/first-commit

We're hiring a technical writer at WeMakeDevs, part-time and paid.

Looking for someone who writes solid technical blogs, has actually used cloud providers hands-on, can pick up new dev and AI tools without much hand-holding, and genuinely likes explaining things to other people.

If that sounds like you, email a few of your technical articles to kunal@wemakedevs.org.

🚨 The Rote Playoffs Hackathon winners are here!

🥇 1st Position (Apple MacBook Pro): Zeyu Sun
🥈 2nd Position (Apple iPad): Stephen Sookra
🥉 3rd Position (Apple iPhone 17): Aryan Gorde
🎖 Runner-ups (Apple Watch): Jayanth Koppala & Ashtika Singh

Huge congratulations to all five of you, and to everyone who submitted a project.

Big thanks to Modiqo for backing this hackathon and making a prize pool this good possible.

60 students get fast-tracked to interviews for 6-month internships and full-time roles at Amazon. No screening round.

Register now: wemakedevs.org/aws

Build with AWS mentors by your side 🤝

Not sure which AWS service to use? Can't decide how much to build so you actually finish? App works on your laptop but breaks once you deploy? Stuck on an IAM error that makes no sense?

You don't have to figure it out alone. Arkodyuti Saha, Manisha Choudhary, Jitesh Udwani, Makendran Gunasekaran, Aman Raj and Brijesh Dubey from AWS will be around all day to help you out.

📅 19th September 2026
📍 Polaris School of Technology, Bangalore

Are you in Bangalore? Join us for the build day on the 19th of September, limited space: https://luma.com/first-commit

2,000+ students have joined the WeMakeDevs Space on AWS Builder Center 🤯

It is a great resource for students who want to learn cloud and AI. As a student, you get free access to:
📚 900+ courses
🧪 Hands-on labs
🎓 Certification vouchers
🛠️ Workshops

Join our space and take part in the Bharat Builds hackathon series, where the top 10 builders at every event get a direct interview with Amazon for internships and full-time roles, skipping the screening round: https://bit.ly/wmd-space

🚨 First Commit hackathon is LIVE. It is the opening stop of the Bharat Builds Tour with AWS, a six stop run of hackathons taking us from September through December, and it starts TODAY.

You build on AWS from anywhere in India over the next four days. There is ₹20 Lakh worth of cash prizes, cloud credits and gadgets on the table, and fast-track hiring at Amazon for internship and full-time roles, terms and conditions on the site.

If you have been meaning to build something on AWS and never got past the planning, this is the weekend for it: https://www.wemakedevs.org/aws

For students in Bangalore we have an in-person build day on 19 September at Polaris School of Technology where AWS mentors will be on the floor with you and a hands on GenAI workshop runs alongside: https://luma.com/first-commit

If you are building for the First Commit hackathon, verifying your student status unlocks some great perks that can help you while you build and learn.

Here's what you can unlock:
- 12 months of AWS Skill Builder Premium with 900+ courses, labs, and exam prep worth $449
- AWS certification voucher worth $100
- AWS credit worth $30 by completing badges on AWS Builder Center

Make the most of the First Commit and the resources available to you.

Verify your student status: bit.ly/abc-verify

🚨 Last day to submit your First Commit hackathon project!

📋 Your submission should have:
1️⃣ A public GitHub repo
2️⃣ A YouTube demo video under 3 minutes that shows AWS in action
3️⃣ A short writeup covering how you have used AWS in your project

🔗 Submission CLOSES at 8 PM IST, submit FAST: https://www.wemakedevs.org/aws/first-commit/submit

📁 Resources, rules and judging criteria on website: https://www.wemakedevs.org/aws/first-commit