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Share Your Integration Innovations in the Flex Your Skills Contest on AWS

Think you have a great idea other startups should be using? The Flex Your Skills Contest is your chance to highlight your creativity and ingenuity in integrations in AWS using Step Functions. AWS Step Functions is a low-code visual workflow service used to orchestrate AWS services, automate business processes, and build serverless applications. With the release of AWS SDK Integration in Step Functions, supported integrations for AWS Services in Step Functions have increased from 17 to over 200, and supported AWS API Actions have increased from 46 to over 9,000 making it even simpler to build on AWS.

Innovation and experimentation are core functions for Startups, and we believe the launch of AWS SDK Integration creates exciting new possibilities to do both. SaaS developers can take data stored in Amazon S3, augment it with information stored in Amazon DynamoDB, then process with AWS machine learning services such as Amazon Textract or Amazon Comprehend to add new capabilities for their users. Security operations engineers can build reliable, observable, and auditable workflows that react to events from Amazon EventBridge then execute actions in Amazon EC2 to enforce IT controls. Mobile application developers can build a synchronous API that uses Amazon Personalize, Amazon Location Service, and Amazon Pinpoint to enrich the experience of their users.

We’re holding the Flex Your Skills Contest so you can share your best innovations for integrations across AWS Services. And with the recently released Workflow Studio in Step Functions, getting started has never been easier.

To enter, submit your working idea via a pull request to a public GitHub Repository here. Entries will be judged by a panel of AWS experts, and 3 winners will be selected. The Flex Your Skills Contest closes on 11/19/2021. Winners will be announced on 12/02/2021. This contest is open to residents of the United States only, but in the spirit of inclusion, we hope to expand to a global audience in the future. Submit your entry today!

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Prizes

First Prize:

  1. $500 in AWS Credits
  2. A case study of your entry on the AWS Startups blog
  3. An AWS Swag pack valued at $500
  4. Announcement in the Serverless Office Hours session at AWS re:Invent 2021

Second Prize:

  1. $200 in AWS Credits
  2. An AWS Swag pack valued at $200
  3. Announcement in the Serverless Office Hours session at AWS re:Invent

Third Prize:

  1. $50 in AWS Credits
  2. An AWS Swag pack valued at $50
  3. Announcement in the Serverless Office Hours session at AWS re:Invent

Additional Prizes:

$25 in AWS Credits will be awarded to our 2 favorite entries per day.

Enter here, and see full contest terms and conditions.