AWS x Nx 4-Hour Startup Hackathon

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The 4-Hour Startup: Ship to AWS with Nx 4 hours. 1 idea. Deployed on AWS. Go. 🚀 The Challenge Build and deploy a production-ready application on AWS from zero to live using the brand-new Nx Plugin for AWS V1. Scaffold full-stack apps, AI agents, and MCP servers with a single command, then ship something real before the clock runs out. No Nx experience required — the plugin handles the infrastructure scaffolding. Just bring an idea and the will to ship it. Here is a tutorial with Nx Plugin for AWS

🏗️ What You'll Build With The Nx Plugin for AWS gives you generators that scaffold production-ready patterns in seconds: 🌐 Full-Stack Apps: React + CloudFront + S3 + WAF + API + Cognito auth 🤖 AI Agents: TypeScript Strands agents deployed to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore 🔌 MCP Servers: Tool servers for AI assistants 👻 Kiro: Trial version of Kiro AI Coding Service 🔗 Connection Generators: Wire services together with type-safe clients Pick a track. Pick a team. Ship it.

💡 The Opportunity Prove you can ship. Compete for prizes across multiple categories Grand Prize, Second Place, and Third Place. Build with cutting-edge tooling: The Nx Plugin for AWS V1 just launched — you'll be among the first builders in the world to use it in competition. Leverage Nx's monorepo intelligence and AWS infrastructure to go from idea to deployed app faster than you thought possible. Join a builder community: Connect with fellow developers, AWS Solutions Architects, and the Nx engineering team all in one room. Get hands-on help from the people who built the tools you're using. Meet the makers: Network with engineers from Nx and the AWS team who created the plugin. Get feedback on your architecture, your code, and your ideas. No experience barrier. This hackathon is designed for builders at all levels. The plugin handles the infrastructure scaffolding, you focus on the creative problem-solving. Teams that are brand-new to Nx have just as much chance to win. Don't miss out! Assemble your team or fly solo (or find one at kickoff!) and prove that a great idea + the right tools = a shipped product. Every project starts from scratch. Every team starts equal.

🗓️ Schedule 9:00 AM — 🚪 Doors Open & Registration 9:30 AM — 🎤 Kickoff: Nx & Nx Polygraph Intro 10:15 AM — 🎤 Nx Plugin for AWS with Demo 11:00AM — 🎤 Coding with Kiro 11:30AM — 🎤 AWS Marketplace Acceleration with VeUP 12:00 PM — ⚡ Checkpoint: Food (Provided by VeUP) + progress check 12:30 PM — 🚀 💻 Hack Sprint #1: Go from Zero to Deployed 4:30 PM — 📤 Submission Deadline (Code freeze) 4:45 PM — 🎤 Live Demos & Judging (2 min per team) 6:00 PM — 🏆 Awards Ceremony & Networking

👥 Sponsors Nx VeUP AWS

🏆 Prizes Grand Prize: Nintendo Switch 2, Nx Cloud Credits, VeUP Sell - service that gets your product listed on AWS Marketplace and connected to AWS sales channels Second Place: Kiro Credits Third Place: Kiro Credits

👩‍⚖️👨‍⚖️ Judges TBD

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