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AWS Solutions-Focused Immersion Days are a series of events that are designed to educate you about AWS products and services and help you develop the skills needed to build, deploy, and operate your infrastructure and applications in the cloud. Immersion Days leverage a modular content format and are structured to provide general overviews of a given service or solution. Hands-on labs provide you with an immersive experience in the AWS console. Sessions are delivered by AWS Solutions Architects and subject matter experts. 

Why attend?

Whether you are new to AWS or an experienced user, you can learn something new at an Immersion Day. These events are designed to help you develop the right skills to create new insights, enable new efficiencies, and make more accurate decisions.   

Who should attend?

These events are designed for the technical audience including Infrastructure Administrators, Database Administrators, Developers, and Architects. However, anyone is welcome to attend and learn new skills. 

What is AWS Builder’s Quest?

AWS Builder's Quest is a digital badge program that provides recognition for participation and completion of AWS technology learning events. These events include AWS Immersion Days. AWS Builder's Quest encourages a wider and deeper understanding of AWS cloud technologies while introducing new learning paths and highlighting personal achievements. Use our digital badges to showcase a rich picture of a learning journey that increases confidence with practical cloud skills allowing you to innovate using AWS. Join one of our Solutions-Focused Immersion Day events to find out more. Read the FAQs below for additional information.

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  • Virtual Event

    Level 200

    Modernize your Data Warehouse with Amazon Redshift

    About the Workshop:
    Join us for a hands-on immersion day to learn how Amazon Redshift can help you build a modern, cost-effective data warehouse. Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service that makes it simple and cost-effective to efficiently analyze all your data using your existing business intelligence tools. It is optimized for datasets ranging from a few hundred gigabytes to a petabyte or more and costs less than $1,000 per terabyte per year, a tenth the cost of most traditional data warehousing solutions.

    There will be temporary AWS accounts provided for the hands on labs. The purpose of these temporary accounts is to ensure that all resources and permissions are set up correctly and to avoid any charges in your personal or business accounts. If you join late or are not active when the accounts are released, we will not be able to provide the temporary account.

    You must be registered to be issued a temporary AWS Account. Do not join the event with someone else’s registration link.

    This Immersion Day qualifies for the Amazon Redshift Immersion Day Builder’s Quest participation badge.

    Who Should Attend:
    This event is for Infrastructure Admins, DBAs, Developers, and Architects. We recommend some familiarity with the AWS Console, but this is not required. For the best experience we recommend the use of two monitors.

    Topics Covered:

    • Presentation: Introduction to Amazon Redshift
    • Presentation: Amazon Redshift Best Practices
    • Lab: Redshift Immersion Labs
    March 11, 2025 | 5.5 Hours
    8:30AM - 2:00 PM PT | 11:30 AM - 5:00 PM ET

  • Virtual Event

    200

    Amazon QuickSight Essentials: Transforming Data into Actionable Insights

    About the Workshop:
    Dive into the world of Amazon QuickSight, AWS's cloud-native business intelligence service, and unlock the potential of your data through compelling visualizations and interactive dashboards. This immersive, hands-on training will equip you with the skills to harness the power of QuickSight and transform data into actionable insights.

    Amazon QuickSight powers data-driven organizations with unified business intelligence (BI) at scale. With QuickSight, all users can meet varying analytic needs from the same source of truth through modern interactive dashboards, paginated reports, natural language queries and embedded analytics. With Amazon Q in QuickSight, business analysts and business users can use natural language to build, discover, and share meaningful insights in seconds, turning insights into impact faster.

    This workshop will walk you through how to get started with learning the basics of connecting to data, building visuals, creating calculations, designing interactivity, leveraging ML, and sharing dashboards. The exercises are broken into modules and are beginner friendly.

    There will be temporary AWS accounts provided for the hands on labs. The purpose of these temporary accounts is to ensure that all resources and permissions are set up correctly and to avoid any charges in your personal or business accounts. If you join late or are not active when the accounts are released, we will not be able to provide the temporary account.

    You must be registered to be issued a temporary AWS Account. Do not join the event with someone else’s registration link.

    This Immersion Day qualifies for the Quicksight Immersion Day Builder’s Quest participation badge.

    Who Should Attend:
    The Amazon QuickSight Immersion Day is ideal for data analysts, BI professionals, and IT leaders who want to learn how to build interactive business intelligence dashboards efficiently. The event will equip attendees with skills to unlock data-driven decision making in their organization. Prior experience with AWS is recommend but not required. For the best experience we recommend the use of two monitors.

    Topics Covered:

    March 12, 2025 | 6 hours
    11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

  • Virtual Event

    200

    Generative AI Powered Data Streaming and Anomaly Detection Workshop

    About the Workshop:
    Log analytics is a common use case that allows you to analyze log data from websites, mobile devices, servers, sensors, and more for a wide variety of applications such as digital marketing, application monitoring, fraud detection, ad tech, gaming, and IoT. Moving your log analytics to real-time can provide insights in seconds or minutes instead of hours or days. Real-time streaming is crucial for enhancing the performance and adaptability of generative AI applications.

    Leveraging AWS data streaming services and tools like Amazon Managed Service for Apache Kafka (MSK) and Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink (MSF), we'll tackle the challenges of data ingestion, processing, and aggregation with ease to build robust and scalable streaming pipelines. But that's not all! We'll take it a step further by integrating Generative AI hosted on Amazon Bedrock. This cutting-edge technology will interpret the anomalous logs and generate human-readable emails, providing you with actionable insights and recommendations.

    There will be temporary AWS accounts provided for the hands on labs. The purpose of these temporary accounts is to ensure that all resources and permissions are set up correctly and to avoid any charges in your personal or business accounts. If you join late or are not active when the accounts are released, we will not be able to provide the temporary account.

    You must be registered to be issued a temporary AWS Account. Do not join the event with someone else’s registration link.

    This Immersion Day qualifies for the GenAI and Streaming Data Workshop Builder’s Quest participation badge.

    Who Should Attend:
    Technical Decision Makers, Data engineers, developers and IT professionals who are curious about how to use multiple AWS services together to create a streaming and a generative AI application to improve operational efficiency and elevate the customer experience. Technical engineers will dive deep into AWS data pipelines and analytics services through this in-depth hands-on workshop. All attendees must register.

    Why should I attend?

    At this event, you will:

    • Get hands-on experience with multiple AWS services to identify nefarious behavior and anomalies in network flow logs in real-time
    • Diagnose and recommend actions
    • Use Amazon Bedrock for integrating Generative AI
    • Send e-mail notification to interested parties


    Topics Covered:

    • Presentation: Generative AI Powered Data Streaming and Anomaly Detection Workshop
    • Lab: Analyzing Network Flow Logs with Generative AI
    • Topics:
      • Data Ingestion, Examine and Processing Data in Real-time
      • Create Smart Alerts with Generative AI
      • Configure OpenSearch Ingestion and Dashboard Exploration
    March 13, 2025 | 2.5 hours
    12:00 PM - 2:30 PM EST

  • Virtual Event

    100

    Simplifying Compliance Reviews with AWS Config & AWS Security Hub

    About the Workshop:
    This hands-on workshop helps security, compliance and audit professionals streamline AWS compliance reviews using Config and Security Hub. Attendees will learn to automate audits, implement controls via code, continuously monitor environments, and generate compliance reports. Ideal for technical and non-technical roles managing SOC, PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, and other AWS compliance standards.

    There will be temporary AWS accounts provided for the hands on labs. The purpose of these temporary accounts is to ensure that all resources and permissions are set up correctly and to avoid any charges in your personal or business accounts. If you join late or are not active when the accounts are released, we will not be able to provide the temporary account.

    You must be registered to be issued a temporary AWS Account. Do not join the event with someone else’s registration link.

    This Immersion Day qualifies for the Security and Compliance Immersion Day Builder’s Quest participation badge.

    Who Should Attend:
    This 100 level workshop is ideal for IT professionals, cloud architects, security specialists, compliance officers, and anyone responsible for ensuring their organization's cloud infrastructure adheres to compliance standards. Basic knowledge of AWS services and security concepts is recommended. For the best experience we recommend the use of two monitors.

    Topics Covered:

    March 18, 2025 | 3.5 hours
    12:00 PM - 3:30 PM EST

  • Virtual Event

    100

    Generative BI, Democratizing the data with QuickSight

    About the Workshop:
    Curious about how you can read data without being an expert in BI tools? Would you like to learn how GenAI is helping any role in a company to get the insights they need to make better decisions? We’d love to show you! Join us for a session to get hands-on with GenAI services AWS offers such as Amazon QuickSight and its QuickSight Q features in our GenAI Immersion Day for builders.

    Today enterprises have lot of data but driving insights out of that data in a timely manner is always a challenge, most often it requires special skillset and tools which in turn adds more time. With the Generative business intelligence (BI) capabilities of Amazon Q in QuickSight, BI users can build, discover, and share actionable insights and narratives in seconds using intuitive natural language experiences.

    There will be temporary AWS accounts provided for the hands on labs. The purpose of these temporary accounts is to ensure that all resources and permissions are set up correctly and to avoid any charges in your personal or business accounts. If you join late or are not active when the accounts are released, we will not be able to provide the temporary account.

    You must be registered to be issued a temporary AWS Account. Do not join the event with someone else’s registration link.

    This Immersion Day qualifies for the Amazon Q in QuickSight Immersion Day Builder’s Quest participation badge.

    Who Should Attend:
    This workshop is designed for technical audience (e.g. Solution Architects (DB or Analytics), Developers, Business Analyst, Data Analyst and consultants) who want to learn how the latest Generative AI services such as Amazon Q in QuickSight can help to democratize the access to the data and make everyone a BI expert. For the best experience we recommend the use of two monitors.

    Topics Covered:

    March 19th, 2025 | 4.5 hours
    12:00 PM - 4:30 PM EST

  • Virtual Event

    300

    AWS Control Tower: Extend Your Landing Zone with Customizations

    About the Workshop:
    This advanced workshop focuses on extending AWS Control Tower's native capabilities through customization. You'll learn how to implement custom controls, automate resource deployment, and maintain governance at scale using the Customizations for Control Tower (CfCT) solution. Through hands-on labs, you'll master techniques for deploying custom templates, implementing service control policies, and managing lifecycle events.

    AWS Control Tower offers a simple and efficient way to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment. It establishes a landing zone that is based on best-practices blueprints, and it enables governance using controls you can choose from a prepackaged list. The landing zone is a well-architected, multi-account baseline that follows AWS best practices. By the end of this workshop, you'll have the skills needed to implement and manage custom controls, automate resource deployment, and maintain governance at scale, extending the capabilities of your AWS Control Tower implementation.

    This event does require your own AWS account, and AWS Control Tower landing zone, and we require customers to conduct these Workshop Prerequisites prior to the event. Also, all of the work conducted alongside our instructors should be done in a test (sandbox) environment. We do not recommend handling any production workloads during this workshop.

    This Immersion Day qualifies for the AWS Control Tower Immersion Day Builder’s Quest participation badge.

    Who Should Attend:
    Current AWS Customers - Please make sure to bring your own AWS account with an AWS Control Tower landing zone deployed to the event.
    Aspiring AWS Customers - If you do not currently have an AWS account, consider our Control Tower Immersion Day for a introductory event.

    Topics Covered:
    In these two section customers will learn the value proposition of Customizations for AWS Control Tower, Life Cycle Events, and then receive training through instructor led demo’s on how to deploy customizations for AWS Control Tower. Key topics include:

    • Introduction to Life Cycle Events and Customizations for AWS Control Tower
    • Understanding CfCT architecture and its integration with Control Tower landing zones
    • Implementing automated governance through custom preventive and detective controls
    • Managing multi-account customizations at scale using CloudFormation templates
    • Best practices for maintaining consistency across organizational changes using lifecycle events


    Section 1 – Learn about Customizations for Control Tower (CfCT)
     

    • Welcome
    • Life Cycle Events
    • AWS Customizations for Control Tower Presentation


    Section 2 – Practice with AWS Control Tower

    • Lab: Life Cycle Events
      • In this lab, you'll learn how AWS Control Tower lifecycle events work by implementing automated responses to organizational changes. You'll configure Amazon EventBridge to monitor specific Control Tower actions and create System Manager OpsItems in response to these events, providing operational visibility into critical organizational changes.
    • Lab: Customizations for Control Tower
      • In this lab, we will walk through how to easily add customizations to their AWS Control Tower landing zone using an AWS CloudFormation template and service control policies (SCPs). We will cover: deploying preventive guardrails (SCP Policy), deploying an IAM role in AWS Control Tower Account, and deploying detective guardrails (Config rule), and cleaning up the lab.
    March 20th, 2025 | 2 hours and 45 minutes
    1:00 PM - 3:45 PM EST

  • Virtual Event

    300

    Building Modern Resilient Applications using Amazon EKS and Amazon EFS

    About the Workshop:
    Building Modern Resilient Applications using Amazon EKS and Amazon EFS Immersion Day provides our customers with hands-on experience about developing their resilient application using Amazon EKS and using Amazon EFS as a persistent storage in an multi-AZ active active deployment, and is specifically designed to help us accelerate a customer opportunity.
    After attending a Building Modern Resilient Applications using Amazon EKS and Amazon EFS ImmersionDay our customers must be able to champion the value AWS could bring to their organization, even if they are not yet experts in AWS.

    Building Modern Resilient Applications using Amazon EKS and Amazon EFS goals include-

    • Creating an EKS cluster and connecting it to Amazon EFS.
    • Enabling replication within Amazon EFS to ensure DR to secondary region.
    • Failing over to the DR region and enabling our application.
    • Failing back to primary region and enabling our application.
    • Monitoring Amazon EFS throughput, IOPS and other metrics using CloudWatch dashboard
    • Enabling Cost optimization via Intelligent tier and Life cycle management within Amazon EFS.

    There will be temporary AWS accounts provided for the hands on labs. The purpose of these temporary accounts is to ensure that all resources and permissions are set up correctly and to avoid any charges in your personal or business accounts. If you join late or are not active when the accounts are released, we will not be able to provide the temporary account. You will be able to watch the lab as a demo and complete the lab in your own account at a later time.

    You must be registered to be issued a temporary AWS Account. Do not join the event with someone else’s registration link.

    This Immersion Day qualifies for the XXXXXX Immersion Day Builder’s Quest participation badge.

    Who Should Attend:
    This 300 level workshop is ideal for IT professionals, cloud architects, storage specialists, builders, and anyone responsible for ensuring their organization's cloud infrastructure uses modern and resilient architecture for their applications. Basic knowledge of AWS services, container technology and storage concepts are recommended. For the best experience we recommend the use of two monitors.

    Topics Covered:

    March 20th, 2025 | 4.5 hours
    12:00 PM - 4:30 PM EST

  • Virtual Event

    300

    Generative AI - Transform Developer Experience with Amazon Q

    About the Workshop:
    Curious about how you can transform developer productivity and creativity with the power of GenAI? Ready to revolutionize your development process? Join us for this workshop, where you will learn how to leverage Amazon Q Developer to enhance your software development workflow through hands-on exercises with the Q-Words application.

    Amazon Q Developer is a generative artificial intelligence (AI) powered conversational assistant that can help you understand, build, extend, and operate AWS applications. You can ask questions about AWS architecture, your AWS resources, best practices, documentation, support, and more. Amazon Q is constantly updating its capabilities so your questions get the most contextually relevant and actionable answers.

    When used in an integrated development environment (IDE), Amazon Q provides software development assistance. Amazon Q can chat about code, provide inline code completions, generate net new code, scan your code for security vulnerabilities, and make code upgrades and improvements, such as language updates, debugging, and optimizations.

    There will be temporary AWS accounts provided for the hands on labs. The purpose of these temporary accounts is to ensure that all resources and permissions are set up correctly and to avoid any charges in your personal or business accounts. If you join late or are not active when the accounts are released, we will not be able to provide the temporary account.

    You must be registered to be issued a temporary AWS Account. Do not join the event with someone else’s registration link. You will need to use the same email address you registered with to access your temporary AWS account.

    This Immersion Day qualifies for a Amazon Q Developer Workshop Builder’s Quest participation badge.

    Who Should Attend:
    This workshop is designed for technical audience (e.g. developers, architects, data scientists and IT professionals) who want to learn how Amazon Q Developer can help improve productivity. The use of 2 monitors makes for a better experience.

    Prerequisites:

    • Programming experience with one of the following:
      • Java 8+ - We will be using Java in this workshop. You have the option to work at your own pace using a different language.
        • Python 3.x
        • C#
        • TypeScript
        • NodeJS
    • Basic understanding of AWS core services
    • Familiarity with using VS Code.

    Topics Covered:

    March 25th, 2025 | 4 hours
    1:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST

  • Virtual Event

    200

    Get Started with Data Engineering on AWS

    About the Workshop:
    Join us for an enriching Data Engineering Immersion Day, where you'll gain hands-on experience with AWS big data and analytics services. This workshop focuses on building a cloud-native, serverless data lake, introducing you to key technologies such as AWS Data Migration Service (AWS DMS) for efficient batch data ingestion and AWS Glue for robust data cataloging and ETL operations. You'll learn the fundamentals of Data Lake architecture, explore strategies for populating your Data Lake, and discover effective data management techniques within the Lake environment.

    A highlight of the day will be working with AWS DMS, which enables quick and secure database migrations to AWS while keeping your source database fully operational, thus minimizing application downtime. This powerful tool supports migration between a wide array of commercial and open-source databases, making it an essential skill for modern data engineers. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your data engineering expertise and explore cutting-edge AWS technologies that will help you build future-proof, serverless data solutions.

    There will be temporary AWS accounts provided for the hands on labs. The purpose of these temporary accounts is to ensure that all resources and permissions are set up correctly and to avoid any charges in your personal or business accounts. If you join late or are not active when the accounts are released, we will not be able to provide the temporary account.

    You must be registered to be issued a temporary AWS Account. Do not join the event with someone else’s registration link.

    This Immersion Day qualifies for the Data Engineering Immersion Day Builder’s Quest participation badge.

    Who Should Attend:
    This hands-on, immersive workshop provides data analysts, BI professionals, and data engineers the fundamentals of data engineering and working with data lakes. Attendees will gain immediately applicable skills to build or utilize data lake architectures. Familiarity with the AWS Console is recommended. For the best experience we recommend the use of two monitors.

    Topics Covered:

    March 26th, 2025 | 6 hours
    11:00 AM - 5:00 PM EST

  • Virtual Event

    200

    Get hands on with fraud prevention using AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF)

    About the Workshop:
    This workshop introduces two fraud security features of AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) used to protect your applications running on AWS, Account Takeover Prevention, and Account Creation Fraud Protection and includes hands-on experience. Benefits of including edge services into your architecture include improved performance, reliability, scalability and security of your workloads.

    The workshop focuses on using WAF to observe and control fraudulent activities occurring in your web application landscape. Examples of these activities are brute force login attempts, credential stuffing, and programmatic fraudulent account creation. After an introduction to the features, attendees will get hands-on experience

    There will be temporary AWS accounts provided for the hands on labs. The purpose of these temporary accounts is to ensure that all resources and permissions are set up correctly and to avoid any charges in your personal or business accounts. If you join late or are not active when the accounts are released, we will not be able to provide the temporary account.

    You must be registered to be issued a temporary AWS Account. Do not join the event with someone else’s registration link.

    Attendance and participation in this Immersion Day will provide you the opportunity to earn the Edge Services AWS Builder’s Quest participation badge

    Who Should Attend:
    This is an intermediate event designed for Infrastructure Administrators, Developers, and Architects with foundational level content and labs. Some prior AWS or cloud computing experience would be beneficial but is not required for this session. For the best experience, we recommend the use of two monitors

    Topics Covered:

    • Presentation: Web Application Firewall (WAF) Introduction and Fraud Control Features
    • Lab: Get hands on with fraud prevention using AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF)
    March 26th, 2025 | 4 hours
    12:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST
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Frequently Asked Questions

What is an Immersion Day?
An Immersion Day allows hands-on time with AWS services under the guidance of Solution Architects for a particular topic. They are designed by topic, and typically have 2-4 presentations along with 2-4 hands-on labs that follow a continuous thread to help learners become familiar with the service. These events are a common starting point for customers looking to prepare to use a service or solution in a meaningful project.

What is a Solutions-Focused Immersion Day?
A Solutions-Focused Immersion Day, also known as an SFID, is a 1:many virtual customer event that leverages the Immersion Day format but brings together builders from different backgrounds and different areas to one event to learn together. 

Do I need experience using AWS services to attend the event?
Not at all. You might want to plan on attending the monthly "Introduction to AWS" session we offer if this will be your first time using AWS services. Each session is given a level as to the complexity of that session. It is recommended that you choose a session that aligns to your AWS experience. 

  • Level 100 - Introductory: Sessions will focus on providing an overview of AWS services and features, with the assumption that attendees are new to the topic.
  • Level 200 - Intermediate: Sessions will focus on providing best practices, details of service features, and offering demos, assuming that attendees have introductory knowledge of the topics.
  • Level 300 - Advanced: Sessions will dive deeper into the selected topic. Presenters assume that the audience has some familiarity with the topic, but may or may not have direct experience implementing a similar solution.
  • Level 400 - Expert: Sessions are for attendees who are deeply familiar with the topic, have implemented a solution on their own already, and are comfortable with how the technology works across multiple services, architectures, and implementations.

Will there be any hands-on during the event?
The majority of the Immersion Day sessions have hands-on labs, as the main purpose of the Immersion Days is to the get builders hands-on with the AWS services. There are a few exceptions, so please read the description of the Immersion Day session to verify if hands-on labs are included.

Will using the services during the event cost me money?
During the Immersion Day sessions, you will be given a temporary AWS account for the day to perform the labs in a temporary environment. These temporary accounts are available for 24 hours from the start of the session and will automatically terminate. The exception to this is the Control Tower Immersion Day. Control Tower itself has no cost associated with it, but the different services you utilize will determine the cost.

Do I need an AWS account to attend?
During the Immersion Day sessions, you will be given a temporary AWS account for the day to perform the labs in a temporary environment. These temporary accounts are available for 24 hours from the start of the session and will automatically terminate. The exception to this is the Control Tower Immersion Day. For the Control Tower Immersion Day, you need to bring your own account to participate. To set up your AWS account, please visit this webpage.  

How many events can I attend?
There are no restrictions on the number of events you can attend.

What should I do if I do not receive a confirmation email after registering?    
Please reach out to csc-immersion-day@amazon.com and make sure you include the event title and date in your email.

What happens if I show up late?
We understand things happen and sometimes you may need to join late. Please plan to join the event at the beginning so we can set you up with the temporary AWS account. If you join the event after the temporary AWS accounts have been handed out and labs have started, you will not receive a temporary account. You would need to either use your own AWS account (which may incur costs) or you can watch the labs as a demo and work on them in your own AWS account at a later date.

Do I need to download anything before the event?
For most events, nothing is required. If your event requires any special downloads, it will be referenced in the email confirmation you receive. 

What virtual event platform are the Immersion Days delivered on?
Solutions-Focused Immersion Days utilize either Amazon Chime or GoTo Webinar. To ensure compatibility and a smooth experience, participants should refer to the platform-specific requirements: The GoTo Webinar system requirements page for GoTo Webinar events, and the Amazon Chime system requirements compatibility page for Amazon Chime events. It's important to check the requirements for the platform specified in your event invitation.

What browser should I use?
For web versions of the training platform, we recommend the Chrome browser. Please refer to the system requirements for additional information.

Do I have to stay for the entire event?
There is no time requirement, however, we don’t record the sessions so you could miss important information if you leave early. If you leave early, you are not eligible for the AWS Builder’s Quest Badge. Many of the events happen on a reoccurring basis, so you can possibly attend another session if you have to leave early.

Will I be given a recording of the event?
These events are not recorded.

Should I use my company email to register?
We require that you use your company email to register. By registering with your company email, we can quickly and easily get you connected with your account team.

Will I be given a copy of the slides presented during the event?
We will share a copy of the presentation slides after the Immersion Day session.

Are the sessions offered in any other language?
At this time, sessions are offered in English. We are working to offer sessions in other languages. 

I am not located in North America. Are there sessions available in other time zones?
This program is based in North America. We do have a sister program based in Europe. Please visit AWS CloudBoost to see what sessions are available. 

How can I contact the AWS Solutions-Focused Immersion Day team if I have questions that aren't listed here?
You can contact our team via email csc-immersion-day@amazon.com.

What is AWS Builder’s Quest?
AWS Builder's Quest is a digital badge program that provides recognition for participation and completion of AWS technology learning events including AWS Immersion Days. AWS Builder's Quest is an innovative and fun way for builders to receive recognition for an AWS technology learning event by obtaining digital badges. Not all events offer an AWS Builder's Quest Badge. Please refer to the individual event to see what badge is available.

Why is it called AWS Builder’s Quest?
Customers embark on the quest and achieve the next level by accumulation of AWS Learning Participant badges. As you earn the participant badges, you will automatically earn Level Badges. AWS Builder's Quest Learning Participant badges provides recognition for participation and completion of AWS technology learning events. AWS Builder's Quest Level badges provide recognition for joining multiple Immersion Day sessions.

Why be part of AWS Builder’s Quest? 
AWS Builder’s Quest asserts that a builder successfully completed an AWS technology learning event. As a part of AWS Builder's Quest, builders can visually represent their achievements using digital badges which can be used to showcase a rich picture of a learning journey on professional networks such as LinkedIn.
 
Who can use AWS Builder’s Quest?
Anyone who participates in a Solutions-Focused Immersion Day event hosted by an AWS Solutions Architect.
 
What is the difference between AWS Builder’s Quest and AWS Certification?
An AWS Builder’s Quest Learning Participant badge asserts that a learner has successfully participated in technology learning event such as an AWS Immersion Days. There is no written or formal testing required post event to attest to proficiency of the specific service. AWS Certification provides documentation of competency and proficiency of a specific area. AWS Certification requires passing a formal test to be certified.
 
Can I earn more than one of the same AWS Builder’s Quest Badge?
Each AWS Builder’s Quest badge is aligned to a specific topic. You can only earn 1 badge per topic, even if you attend multiple events for that same topic. Each event lists what badge you will earn for attending. If you already have that badge, you will not be issued another badge. 
 
How do I get the AWS Builder’s Quest Badge?
At the end of each SFID Session, you are asked to complete a customer satisfaction survey. Once you complete that survey, you will be redirected to opt-in to receive the badge for the Immersion Day session. We do need you to opt-in to receive the badge so we can share your name and email address with Credly for the purpose of issuing you the digital badge.
 
Can I earn the badge if I leave early?
To earn the badge, it is expected that you participate in the entire Immersion Day. If you leave the event early and you do not complete the survey to opt-in to receive the badge, you will not be able to earn the badge.
 
How can I contact the AWS Builder’s Quest team if I have questions that aren't listed here?
You can contact our team via email aws-builders-quest@amazon.com
 
Are Control Tower Immersion Days different?
Yes, Control Tower Immersion Days are different in that you need to have your own AWS account. We will not provide temporary AWS accounts for these events. We ask that customers conduct these Workshop Prerequisites prior to the event. Also, all of the work conducted alongside our instructors should be done in a test (sandbox) environment. We do not recommend handling any production environment workloads during this workshop. Please refer to the session description for additional information.