100DaysOfCloud Ideas List

The purpose of this repo is to provide a list of micro-projects to help people with their #100DaysOfCloud Challenge.

• If you want to take the challenge go to: https://100daysofcloud.com
• The #100DaysOfCloud Challenge Template is here: 100DaysOfCloud/100DaysOfCloud

Contributing to this project list:

• You can propose a cloud project by opening a ticket 🎟️
• You need to use our Project Template and submit it as a pull request.

Please do your best to tag your commits

When you open a ticket it will have a Github Issue ID eg. 23

You should reference this number both in your branch name and your PR's commit message.

Including this number will keep track of your commits in the project idea's Github Issue.

eg. Branch Name

git checkout -b 23-COM01-AWS100

eg. Commit Message

#23 — Launching an EC2 instance

We may edit your project submissions in your Pull Requests

When you submit a Pull Request (PR) we may edit the following without notice:

• Typos
• Markdown formatting
• Difficulty Level

We do this to expedite the review process so your project is quickly accepted into the Ideas repository.

Which Cloud Service Providers?

Projects covered could be for:

• Microsoft Azure
• Amazon Web Services
• Google Cloud Platform

We aren't limited to the big three, but thats where you'll see the most examples since IaaS have the most cloud offerings.

We may be weary of third-party cloud services since the goal of these projects is to learn a concept first and a product last.

What is the difficulty and time commitment for these projects?

Projects are labeled based these four levels:

• Level 100 (Introductory)
• Level 200 (Intermediate)
• Level 300 (Advanced)
• Level 400 (Expert)

The goal is to provide micro-projects that can be completed in minutes to hours and worst case a day. The difficulty generally indicates greater time commitment. For more difficult projects more instruction can be provided to reduce the time commitment. Projects may suggest the time it takes to complete the project

The Cloud Project Ideas

• UNI — Unicorn Projects
• SEC — Cloud Security
• COM — Cloud Computing
• NET — Cloud Networking
• BIL — Cloud Billing and Pricing
• GLU — Application Integration
• LES — Serverless
• ARC — Solution Architecting
• MLS — Machine Learning
• IOT — Internet of Things
• STR — Cloud Storage
• DBS — Databases
• DEV — Developer Tools
• OPS — DevOps
• BIG — Big Data and Analytics
• GOV — Management and Governance
• MLT — Multi-Cloud
• HYR — Hybrid-Cloud
• BOT — Robots
• LOW — Low/No Code

🦄 UNI — Unicorn Projects

These are larger projects that use multiple cloud services.

• UNI01 — Hosting your Dev Blog [First Project Recommendations]

🔒 SEC — Cloud Security

SEC01 — Hardware Security Modules (HSM)

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
SEC01-AWS200	Create a new CMK in KMS and encrypt an object	Level 200	AWS	Andrew Brown
SEC01-AZ200	Configure and manage secrets in Azure Key Vault	Level 200	Azure	Gwyneth Peña S.
SEC01-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

SEC02 — Configuration and Remediation Service

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
SEC02-AWS100	Use a managed rule from AWS Config	Level 100	AWS	Andrew Brown
SEC02-AZ100	Create an Azure Policy	Level 100	Azure	Gwyneth Peña S.
SEC02-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

SEC03 — Security Development Lifecycle

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
SEC03-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
SEC03-AZ100	Secure development best practices on Azure	Level 100	Azure	Gwyneth Peña S.
SEC03-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

SEC04 — Manage Identities

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
SEC04-AWS100	Create an IAM user	Level 100	AWS	Syed Auther
SEC04-AZ100	Create a user in Azure AD	Level 100	Azure	Gwyneth Peña S.
SEC04-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

SEC05 — Identity Federation

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
SEC05-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
SEC05-AZ100	Azure AD federation	Level 100	Azure	Gwyneth Peña S.
SEC05-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

🖥 COM — Cloud Computing

COM01 - Bare Metal

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
COM01-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
COM01-AZ200	Azure VMware Solution	Level 100	Azure	Gwyneth Peña S.
COM01-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

COM02 - Dedicated

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
COM02-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
COM02-AZ200	Deploy VMs to dedicated hosts using the portal	Level 200	Azure	Gwyneth Peña S.
COM02-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

COM03 - Virtual Machines

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
COM03-AWS100	Launch a Hello World website on the internet	Level 100	AWS	Syed Auther
COM03-AWS200	Create an Auto Scaling Group	Level 200	AWS	Chris Nagy
COM03-AZ100	Introduction to Azure virtual machines	Level 100	Azure	Gwyneth Peña S.
COM03-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

COM04 - Containers

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
COM04-AWS100	Push a Docker image to Amazon ECR repository	Level 100	AWS	Johan Rin
COM04-AWS200	Deploy a Docker container image on AWS Fargate	Level 200	AWS	Johan Rin
COM04-AWS400	Create a cluster of virtual machines using docker swarm	Level 400	AWS	Karan Gauswami
COM04-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
COM04-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

🌐 NET — Cloud Networking

NET01 — Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR)

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
NET01-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
NET01-AZ200	Plan your Virtual Network	Level 100	Azure	Gwyneth Peña S.
NET01-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

NET02 — VPC / VNET Peering

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
NET02-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
NET02-AZ100	Connect VNets with VNet peering	Level 100	Azure	Gwyneth Peña S.
NET02-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

NET03 — Transfer Acceleration

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
NET03-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
NET03-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
NET03-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

NET04 — Content Distribution Networks (CDNs)

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
NET04-AWS100	Host a simple static webpage with S3 and CloudFront	Level 100	AWS	Antonio Lo Fiego
NET04-AZ100	Azure CDN and Blob Services	Level 200	Azure	Gwyneth Peña S.
NET04-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

🧾 BIL — Cloud Billing and Pricing

BIL01 — Billing alerts

This micro-project is all about avoiding overbilling due to misconfiguration.

⭐ BIL01 is recommended as a good first-time project

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
BIL01-AWS100	Create three Billing Alarms	Level 100	AWS	Chris Nagy
BIL01-AZ100	Create two types of Cost Alerts	Level 100	Azure	Gwyneth Peña S.
BIL01-GCP100	Create three Budget Alerts	Level 100	GCP	Andrew Brown

BIL02 — Budgets

This micro-project is all about controlling your spending.

⭐ BIL02 is recommended as a good first-time project

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
BIL02-AWS100	Create a Cost Budget	Level 100	AWS	Ariela
BIL02-AZ100	Create budgets	Level 100	Azure	Gwyneth Peña S.
BIL02-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

🩹 GLU — Application Integration

Application Integration are cloud services that are used to help other services or apps talk to each other. Messaging Systems are commonly used for Application Integration.

GLU01 — Messaging Queueing Service

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
GLU01-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
GLU01-AZ100	Create an Azure Queue in the Portal	Level 100	Azure	Gwyneth Pena S.
GLU01-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

GLU02 — Pub/Sub Messaging Service

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
GLU02-AWS100	Introduction to SNS (Simple Notification Service)	Level 100	AWS	Edward Allen Mercado
GLU02-AZ200	Introduction to Azure Service Bus	Level 200	Azure	Gwyneth Pena S.
GLU02-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

GLU03 — Streaming Service

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
GLU03-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
GLU03-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
GLU03-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

GLU04 — Event Bus Service

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
GLU04-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
GLU04-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
GLU04-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

GLU05 — GraphQL Service

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
GLU05-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
GLU05-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
GLU05-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

GLU06 — PartiQ

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
GLU06-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
GLU06-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
GLU06-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

GLU07 — State Machine Service

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
GLU07-AWS200	Setup a simple state machine with at least 2 steps	Level 200	AWS	Syed Auther
GLU07-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
GLU07-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

🐹 LES — Serverless

Serverless tech abstracts the need to care for the underlying infrastructure, giving you more time to focus on logic.

LES01 — Serverless Functions

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
LES01-AWS100	Create a Lambda to add 2 numbers	Level 100	AWS	Syed Auther
LES01-AWS200	Create a simple serverless API	Level 200	AWS	Syed Auther
LES01-AZ200	Create an Azure Function in the Azure Portal	Level 200	Azure	Gwyneth Pena S.
LES01-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

LES02 — Serverless Containers

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
LES02-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
LES02-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
LES02-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

LES03 — Serverless Storage

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
LES03-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
LES03-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
LES03-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

LES04 — Serverless NoSQL

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
LES04-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
LES04-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
LES04-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

LES05 — Serverless SQL

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
LES05-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
LES05-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
LES05-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

✍️ ARC — Solution Architecting

ARC01 - Creating an architectural diagram

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
ARC01-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
ARC01-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
ARC01-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

ARC02 - Well-Architected Framework

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
ARC02-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
ARC02-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
ARC02-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

🤖 MLS — Machine Learning

MLS01 — AutoML Service

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
MLS01-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
MLS01-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
MLS01-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

MLS02 — Image Recognition Service

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
MLS02-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
MLS02-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
MLS02-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

MLS03 — Text Extraction Service

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
MLS03-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
MLS03-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
MLS03-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

MLS04 — Natural Language Processing Service

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
MLS04-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
MLS04-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
MLS04-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

📱 IOT — Internet of Things

IOT01 - Voice-based IOT

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
IOT01-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
IOT01-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
IOT01-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

📦 STR — Cloud Storage

STR01 — Data Migration

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
STR01-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
STR01-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
STR01-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

STR02 — Virtual SSD, HDD and Tape Drives

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
STR02-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
STR02-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
STR02-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

STR03 — Shared File Storage Service

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
STR03-AWS200	Create an EFS shared file system	Level 200	AWS	Chris Nagy
STR03-AZ100	Create a FileShare	Level 100	Azure	Gwyneth Peña S.
STR03-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

STR04 — Object Storage

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
STR04-AWS100	Create an S3 Bucket and store an object in it	Level 100	AWS	Syed Auther
STR04-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
STR04-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

STR05 — Data Lakes

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
STR05-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
STR05-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
STR05-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

🗄 DBS — Databases

DBS01 — OLAP vs OLTP

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
DBS01-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
DBS01-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
DBS01-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

DBS02 — CAP Theorem

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
DBS02-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
DBS02-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
DBS02-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

DBS03 — Relational Database

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
DBS03-AWS100	Create an Amazon RDS DB Instance (MS SQL Server)	Level 100	AWS	Jagan
DBS03-AWS200	Create an Amazon Aurora Database	Level 200	AWS	Nathan Cho
DBS03-AWS201	SQLServer Native Backup and Restore on RDS	Level 200	AWS	Jagan
DBS03-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
DBS03-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

DBS04 — Sharding

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
DBS04-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
DBS04-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
DBS04-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

DBS05 — NoSQL Database

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
DBS05-AWS100	Create a DynamoDB table	Level 100	AWS	Chris Nagy
DBS05-AZ100	Creating a Microsoft Azure Cosmos Db (SQL API)	Level 100	Azure	Edward Haigh
DBS05-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

DBS06 — Graph Database

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
DBS06-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
DBS06-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
DBS06-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

DBS07 — Qauntum Database

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
DBS07-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
DBS07-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
DBS07-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

🛠️ DEV — Developer Tools

DEV01 - Platform as a Service (Just code and deploy, don't worry about infrastructure)

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
DEV01-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
DEV01-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
DEV01-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

DEV02 - NoCode Service

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
DEV02-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
DEV02-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
DEV02-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

DEV03 - Command Line Interfaces (CLI)

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
DEV03-AWS100	Install & Configure AWS CLI then create an S3 Bucket	Level 100	AWS	Ariela
DEV03-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
DEV03-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

DEV04 - Software Development Kit (SDK)

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
DEV04-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
DEV04-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
DEV04-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

♻️ OPS — DevOps

OPS01 — Infrastructure as Code

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
OPS01-AWS100	Deploy a CloudFormation template from the AWS Console	Level 100	AWS	Syed Auther Chris Nagy
OPS01-AWS300	Deploy a VPC with Terraform	Level 300	AWS	Markus Mabson
OPS01-AZ100	Deploy an ARM template	Level 100	Azure	Gwyneth Peña S.
OPS01-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

OPS02 — Build Servers

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
OPS02-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
OPS02-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
OPS02-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

OPS03 — Continuous Deployment

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
OPS03-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
OPS03-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
OPS03-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

OPS04 — Monitoring

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
OPS04-AWS200	Create a CloudWatch Alarm	Level 200	AWS	Andrew Brown
OPS04-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
OPS04-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

BIG — Big Data and Analytics

BIG01 — Elastic Map Reduce

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
BIG01-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
BIG01-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
BIG01-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

BIG02 — Data Warehouses

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
BIG02-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
BIG02-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
BIG02-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

BIG03 — Extract, Transform, Load (ETL)

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
BIG03-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
BIG03-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
BIG03-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

👔 GOV — Management and Governance

GOV01 — Multi-account strategy

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
GOV01-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
GOV01-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
GOV01-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

☁️ MLT — Multi-Cloud

MLT01 — Containers Dataplane running across multiple CSPs

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
MLT01-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
MLT01-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
MLT01-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

☁️ HYR — Hybrid-Cloud

HYR01 —

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
HYR01-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
HYR01-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
HYR01-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

🤖 BOT — Robots

BOT01 Robot Simulation

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
BOT01-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
BOT01-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
BOT01-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

BOT02 Autonomous Driving Simulation

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
BOT02-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
BOT02-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
BOT02-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

BOT03 Fleet Management

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
BOT03-AWS100		Level 100	AWS
BOT03-AZ100		Level 100	Azure
BOT03-GCP100		Level 100	GCP

LOW — Low/No Code

LOW No-Code Apps

Project Code	Project Details	Difficulty	CSP	Author(s)
LOW01-AWS100	Create an app with Honeycode	Level 100	AWS
LOW01-AZ100	Create an app with PowerApps	Level 100	Azure
LOW01-GCP100	Create an app with AppSheet	Level 100	GCP

💡 Project Idea Contributors

• Andrew Brown @andrewbrown
• Gwyneth Peña S. @madebygps
• Antonio Lo Fiego @antonio_lofiego
• Syed Auther Abbas @syedauther
• Chris Nagy @chris_the_nagy
• Johan Rin @johanrin
• Ariela @ari_hacks
• Edward Allen Mercado @edwardmercado_
• Jagan @JAG2wt
• Nathan Cho @hatchcanon
• Contribute a project to see your name added to the list!