Essential Tips for Becoming an AWS Community Builder and Why It’s Worth the Journey

Alexander Bolaño Cervantes
3 min readAug 16, 2024

Tips and Benefits for Aspiring Cloud Enthusiasts

Introduction

If you are passionate about technology or want to become a Rockstar developer you must be a self-learner and share knowledge with others, that being said one of the easy ways to do it is to build amazing things and share them, in this article I want to show you how benefits for you can be for your career to be part of AWS Community Builders program and give you little tips to be one.

Benefits

Here I want to share that all the benefits below apply equally to first-year CBs, second-year CBs, etc

  • 🤝 Connecting with Others: Join a supportive community to connect, ask questions, and solve tech challenges together.
  • 👩‍🏫 Community Sessions & Briefings: Attend regular sessions to enhance your technical skills and communication abilities. Some sessions offer exclusive, non-public insights.
  • 📚 Certification Exam Vouchers: Receive one exam voucher per cycle for AWS certification. Use it wisely — it’s a “use it or lose it” benefit.
  • 🎁 Exclusive Swag Kits: Get a special AWS Community Builders swag kit when you join, and another one if you renew for another cycle.

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Alexander Bolaño Cervantes

Hey, 👋 my name is Alex I’m a Senior Data Engineer passionate for automating tasks , Big Data and cutting-edge Technologies