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AWS

Asked for in 40 job posts at 19 companies across Canada.

Demand over time

Job posts asking for AWS, by week, last 16 weeks

in the last 4 weeks · 14 the 4 before

Job posts asking for this skill, by week
Week of	Job posts
Jul 20	0
Jul 27	0
Aug 3	1
Aug 10	2
Aug 17	0
Aug 24	0
Aug 31	5
Sep 7	0
Sep 14	6
Sep 21	2
Sep 28	5
Oct 5	1
Oct 12	0
Oct 19	2
Oct 26	3
Nov 2	9

Who's hiring

Companies with posts that ask for it

LLightspeed7
CCohere4
FFaire4
PPolicyMe3
BBenevity3
11Password2
CClutch2

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Impact projects

Real problems in Canada, from public data. Build something that helps, and prove AWS while you do it.

AI-suggestedUN SDG 11
Emergency shelter beds, Calgary (yearly) moved from 1959 in 2016 to 1736 in 2025, creating capacity challenges for shelter operators in Calgary.
Emergency shelter beds, Calgary (yearly)
Emergency shelter beds, Calgary (yearly)
Period Value
2016 1,959 beds
2017 1,949 beds
2018 2,052 beds
2019 1,916 beds
2020 1,861 beds
2021 1,232 beds
2022 1,615 beds
2023 1,769 beds
2024 1,746 beds
2025 1,736 beds
What to build
Deploy an AWS Lambda function that monitors shelter bed metrics and sends weekly summary alerts to housing coordinators.
How it practises AWS
Practice configuring serverless compute and notification services in AWS using infrastructure as code.
Proof to submit
Submit a public GitHub repository with the deployment templates, function code, and architecture diagram.
Data: Statistics Canada table 14-10-0353-01
AI-suggestedUN SDG 2
Share of people living in food-insecure households, Alberta (yearly) went from 19.4 in 2018 to 28.4 in 2024, placing high demand on food banks across Alberta.
Share of people living in food-insecure households, Alberta (yearly)
Share of people living in food-insecure households, Alberta (yearly)
Period Value
2018 19.4%
2019 18.6%
2020 19.8%
2021 22%
2022 28.2%
2023 31.3%
2024 28.4%
What to build
Build a serverless web API on AWS to help community food banks query regional food insecurity metrics.
How it practises AWS
Practice deploying APIs and database storage using AWS API Gateway and DynamoDB.
Proof to submit
Submit a public GitHub repository with the backend code, infrastructure scripts, and a live API endpoint.
Data: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0834-01

Emergency shelter beds, Calgary (yearly)
Period	Value
2016	1,959 beds
2017	1,949 beds
2018	2,052 beds
2019	1,916 beds
2020	1,861 beds
2021	1,232 beds
2022	1,615 beds
2023	1,769 beds
2024	1,746 beds
2025	1,736 beds

Share of people living in food-insecure households, Alberta (yearly)
Period	Value
2018	19.4%
2019	18.6%
2020	19.8%
2021	22%
2022	28.2%
2023	31.3%
2024	28.4%

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Projects to prove it AI-suggested

Serverless Invoice Extraction Pipeline
A document processing flow that parses scanned vendor receipts using optical text parsing and indexes the extracted totals for accounting teams. It automates repetitive manual receipt reconciliation for small bookkeeping firms.
Zero-Downtime Microservice Staging Environment
An automated containerized staging cluster deployed with reproducible rollout templates and automated smoke tests. It provides development teams with isolated review environments to validate pull requests before production releases.
Cross-Cloud S3 Backup and Replication Daemon
A failover synchronization tool that replicates mission-critical archival buckets to alternative cloud object storage. It gives compliance officers at financial institutions verifiable offsite disaster recovery backups.