Why AWS AI League?
AWS AI League transforms how builders use AWS AI services like SageMaker AI and Bedrock. Through a competition-based program, participants tackle real-world business challenges by putting powerful AI tools directly into their hands. Enterprises can apply to host internal tournaments and receive AWS credits, creating environments where teams collaborate and compete while building AI solutions relevant to their specific business needs. Individual developers can participate at AWS Summits, testing their abilities against peers while working directly with AWS AI services. The program provides participants with a quick orientation, then focuses on tournaments with challenges centered on model customization and building agents to solve real-world challenges. The Global Championship features a $50,000 prize pool, with finalists from around the world competing at the grand finale at re:Invent 2026.
Benefits
The program delivers hands on engagement with AWS AI services by creating a competitive environment through gamification with leaderboards, timed challenges, and tournament formats. Participants compete for recognition through flexible competition formats tailored to enterprise needs or individual Summit events.
Jump directly into building AI solutions without lengthy preparation. Experience the power of AWS AI services through structured competition that drives immediate results and practical application. No theory—just hands-on discovery and innovation.
Transform your understanding of AWS AI services through a competition-based program. Create engagement and drive innovation as teams work together to solve challenges, building internal networks and compete to move up the leaderboard to win prizes and bragging rights.
See how real business challenges connect to AWS AI services. Builders compete in solving challenges tailored to their business and relevant data to create tangible value beyond the competition experience. This approach fosters innovation, driving engagement that does not end when the winner is crowned.
Compete to Innovate
Transform how you engage with AI through structured tournaments that challenge teams to solve business problems using Amazon SageMaker AI and Amazon Bedrock.
Enterprise Events
With AWS AI League, your organization hosts private tournaments where teams collaborate and compete to solve real-world business use cases relevant to your industry. Participants craft effective prompts, fine-tune models, and build powerful generative AI solutions while competing in structured challenges. Enterprises can apply to receive AWS credits to host internal AWS AI League competitions, creating an environment that fosters a culture of innovation within their organizations through hands-on competition. Apply Now to receive AWS credits to host an AWS AI League event within your organization
AWS Summits and AWS re:Invent
Developers can participate in AWS AI League competitions at select AWS Summits and AWS re:Invent, giving them a chance to compete while working directly with AWS AI services. This provides a competitive environment where developers can tackle real business challenges, testing their abilities against peers from around the world. The program offers developers immediate, practical experience with AWS AI solutions through timed challenges, leaderboards, and innovation-focused competition formats.
Use Cases
IBM
“AWS AI League’s hands-on, accessible design enabled participants to apply practical skills to real business challenges in a collaborative, fast-paced environment. Team members from a variety of roles were able to apply their expertise in meaningful ways. Within the experience, participants worked with tools like Amazon SageMaker AI to explore model fine-tuning, and we observed potential for up to a 30% reduction in time spent on common content creation and data analysis tasks. Beyond skill-building, it sparked fresh thinking around large language models and new ways generative AI can be applied to client challenges. The impact has been both immediate and substantial.” - Balu Angaian, Vice President and Senior Partner, AWS Americas Leader, IBM Consulting
InterVision
“(AWS AI League) experience was a true acceleration point for us. We didn’t just experiment with AI—we compressed months of R&D into real-worldimpact.” - Brent Lazarenko, Head of Technology and Innovation at InterVision
GovTech Singapore
“The AWS AI League has transformed how our teams approach AI innovation. The program's toolkit and gamified approach gave Singapore's public officers the freedom to experiment with AI tools, accelerating their learning journey and turning complex AI concepts into practical applications that advance public sector innovation.” - Chang Sau Sheong, Chief Technology Officer and Deputy Chief Executive (Products), GovTech Singapore
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