Cloud computing major Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently held the 10,000 AIdeas Competition that required builders from around the world to pitch an AI app idea and build it from scratch. “From day one, our mission was simple. To make powerful technology accessible to every developer,” said Jeff Barr, vice president and chief evangelist, AWS.
“We envisioned supporting everyone, from a developer working in a dorm room, a garage, or a coworking space, to startups and large global enterprises. We wanted developers everywhere to have access to the tools and infrastructure needed to transform great ideas into reality and scale them globally,” Barr told indianexpress.com.
He said the 10,000 Aldeas competition is a natural extension of AWS’s core mission. A key requirement of the competition was that developers use Kiro, AWS’s agentic development environment, to build AI applications that solve real-world problems. “We also challenged them to do so within the AWS Free Tier, which allows developers to start building without any upfront cost commitment.”
The competition was held from December 2025 to April 2026 and attracted thousands of aspiring developers from over 115 countries.
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