AWS GameDay · Unicorn Day
Join national competitors at Unicorn.Rentals. Take charge of the unicorn rental site, tackle real web traffic and sudden outages, and get hands-on with world-class Cloud Computing skills competition challenges.
AWS GameDay
On your first day at the fictional unicorn rental company Unicorn.Rentals, your team takes over a website receiving a steady stream of traffic. Every successful rental earns points, while rankings balance traffic served, response latency, and compute cost. A larger instance is not automatically the best choice. In a live AWS environment, you will observe services, troubleshoot failures, and improve the architecture. Chaos Monkey-style disruptions may occur (like a clumsy teammate accidentally shutting down your service), so monitoring helps you detect trouble and keep the site online. National competitors will help you get hands-on with international skills competition Cloud Computing challenges and share how they prioritize problems and verify fixes under time pressure.
Successful unicorn rentals
How quickly the site responds
Instance size and expense
AWS GameDay
Medallion for Excellence, Cloud Computing · 48th WorldSkills Competition (Shanghai 2026)
Current Cloud Computing national competitor
A Computer Science master's student at National Central University, Ian won Cloud Computing bronze at the 3rd WorldSkills Asia Competition (Taipei 2025). He holds seven AWS certifications and is active in the AWS User Group Taiwan community.
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Medallion for Excellence, Cloud Computing · 47th WorldSkills Competition (Lyon 2024)
DevOps Engineer @ Google
A Google DevOps Engineer, Arcloud founder, and AWS Community Builder. Previously at Google Cloud and Amazon, he holds seven AWS professional certifications and builds cloud solutions for businesses.
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AWS User Group Taiwan · Leader · AWS Community Builder
An AWS User Group Taiwan Leader and AWS Community Builder, Eric is currently a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at National Chung Hsing University.
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Skills competitions test practical ability through hands-on tasks. In Taiwan, competitors progress through regional and national competitions, then national competitor selection for a chance to represent Taiwan internationally. Cloud Computing is Skill 53. Its scope includes cloud services, network and system administration, application deployment (including databases), and system security. Competitors must turn requirements into an architecture, deploy services, troubleshoot failures, and balance reliability, security, and cost under time pressure. This GameDay lets you explore those cloud skills through a unicorn rental website scenario.
Design and build public cloud infrastructure
Deploy applications and operate services
Analyze problems and improve systems
Based on the selection rules for the 48th WorldSkills Competition. Eligibility and places may change by edition; check the current official notice.
In principle, the top five in each skill and region are recommended for the national competition; exceptions apply when entry numbers are low or regions are combined.
Current results count toward stage one. Past top-three finishers may also enter national competitor selection if they meet age and other requirements.
Held alongside the national competition. The top three advance to stage two, with three additional reserves.
Stage-one and stage-two results count for 40% and 60% of the total; the highest-ranked competitor is selected, followed by a reserve.
AWS GameDay
High school and university students, and community members interested in hands-on cloud operations or skills competitions, are welcome. Register solo or with a full team of four. Tell us your familiarity level when signing up; we will help match participants into balanced teams.
A basic understanding of web requests, cloud resources, and command-line tools is recommended. We will help you enter the environment, and you can ask the competitors questions throughout.
AWS GameDay
Workshop: 12:30–16:40. The main event closing and GameDay awards follow from 16:40–17:30, making 5 hours in total. Room to be announced.
12:30–12:45
15 min
Meet the Cloud Computing skill and hear national competitors share their journey, takeaways, and opportunities opened by competition.
12:45–13:00
15 min
Your first day at Unicorn.Rentals: take over the rental site and learn its cloud architecture, challenge, and scoring rules.
13:00–13:15
15 min
Confirm your team, tools, and the initial state of the services.
13:15–15:25
130 min
Assess the services and monitoring, improve the cloud architecture as a team, and verify each change before peak traffic arrives.
15:25–16:25
60 min
Rental season is approaching and traffic rises steadily. Tune resources and services while managing latency, cost, and sudden failures.
16:25–16:40
15 min
Review changes, discuss questions, and check the results.
Stuck on an AWS service, an architecture choice, or a sudden outage? Ask the two national competitors at any time. They will help you clarify the problem, share how they make decisions under competition pressure, and test solutions with you. You can also ask about the Cloud Computing skill and their path to international competition.
AWS GameDay
Participants will receive an electronic participation certificate.
The top three teams will receive mystery prizes.
AWS GameDay
Register for the main Community Day event first, then complete the separate GameDay registration form.
Organizer
Department of Information Technology and Management and Office of Library and Information Services, Shih Chien University
Co-organizer
AWS User Group Taiwan
Supporter
Amazon Web Services