XBrain Learners

Weekly learning guides and project announcements for the XBrain AWS DevOps/CloudOps Foundation Program.

Program Overview

• Duration: 7 weeks (Phase 1: Foundation)
• Focus: AWS cloud architecture, infrastructure, and operations
• Format: Mon-Wed courses + labs, Thu consolidation, Fri group presentations

Weekly Materials

Week	Theme	Guide	Announcement	Recordings	Slides
W1	Propose & Map — Architecture diagram, on-prem to AWS mapping	—	—	—	—
W2	Storage & Identity — S3, EBS, IAM, VPC	Learner Guide	Project Announcement	Recordings	Slides
W3	Database & AI — RDS, DynamoDB, Bedrock	Coming soon	Coming soon	Recordings	Slides
W4	Data Pipelines — ETL, analytics, ML pipelines	Coming soon	Coming soon	Recordings	Slides
W5	Networking — VPC hardening, API Gateway, WAF	Coming soon	Coming soon	—	—
W6	Operations & Security — CloudWatch, auto-scaling, KMS	Coming soon	Coming soon	—	—
W7	Capstone Hackathon — Ship Production-Ready AI in 48 Hours	Learner Guide	Project Announcement	Recordings	Slides

How to Use

• Learner Guide: Read before each week starts. Contains focus areas, hands-on tips, deliverables, and how to prepare for Friday presentations.
• Project Announcement: The mission brief for the week. Describes what "done" looks like on Friday and how this week connects to the final W7 demo.

W7 Capstone Hackathon — extra materials

W7 is a 48-hour hackathon and ships with more student-facing material than other weeks:

• W7/W7_project_announcement.md — full project brief (English)
• W7/W7_learner_guide.md — day-by-day guide (Day 1/2 = suggested rhythm, not contract)
• W7/W7_hackathon_rules.txt — short Vietnamese rules sheet
• W7/W7_cost_estimates.md — reference cost estimates for 3 starter projects in ap-southeast-1
• W7/starter_apps/ — 3 ready-to-run source codes (pick one or build your own):
  • StudyBot (EduTech, RAG over uploaded notes)
  • BudgetBot (FinTech, direct LLM transaction classification)
  • DocHub (ProductivityTech, multi-tenant RAG)

Each starter app runs locally with zero AWS credentials (SQLite + filesystem + local AI stub) and switches to AWS by flipping env vars. Sample data is sourced from HuggingFace (wikimedia/wikipedia for StudyBot, coastalcph/lex_glue LEDGAR for DocHub) — citations + licenses in each app's sample_data/SOURCES.md. BudgetBot ships with synthetic Vietnamese transactions (CC0).

Evaluation

You are evaluated on:

• Group presentation — Your team's architecture quality, AWS design, and deployment demo
• Individual QnA — Your ability to explain decisions when called on randomly during presentations
• Daily checkpoints — Kahoot and other games during Mon-Wed
• Peer evaluation — Your teammates rate your contribution
• Classroom participation — Daily engagement tracked

Questions?

Reach out to your group mentor or post in the training Slack channel.