How did you pick a hands-on project for AWS Certification?

[PatrickT]

AWS certification is a great goal, but the sheer volume of services can be overwhelming when studying. What's one specific, practical project or hands-on exercise you did that helped the concepts finally click for you?

[Amelia.M]

I built a tiny serverless CRUD app using API gateway Lambda and DynamoDB plus a static front end on S3 to learn the full flow It clicked when I could deploy and test without managing servers This aligns with aws certification 2025 trends

[Madison_T]

I set up a basic CI CD pipeline with CodeCommit CodeBuild CodePipeline to auto deploy changes to a static site on S3 So when I push a commit it ships without fiddling with config

[Joshua97]

I turned on a simple cost alert in AWS Budgets and built a tiny Cost Explorer view in CloudWatch So I could see spending patterns and catch surprises early

[JohnL]

I created a Lambda backed event flow that processes new images uploaded to S3 and stores metadata in DynamoDB It made me understand event driven design in practice

[Mason.M]

I did an IAM least privilege exercise by drafting a role for a Lambda that only allows reads from one bucket and writes to one table It felt like a real security upgrade without extra fluff.