# aws-samples/aws-modern-application-workshop

A tutorial for developers that want to learn about how to build modern applications on top of AWS. You will build a sample website that leverages infrastructure as code, containers, serverless code functions, CI/CD, and more.

Repository: https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-modern-application-workshop
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/aws-modern-application-workshop
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2023-08-31T07:44:51+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3010, "days_push": 1098, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1492, forks 820 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:52.635122+00:00)

## What it is
A hands-on AWS tutorial workshop where developers build a sample pet-adoption website called Mythical Mysfits. It teaches modern application development on AWS using infrastructure as code, containers, serverless functions, and CI/CD pipelines.

## Use cases
- learn how to build modern applications on aws
- aws workshop for beginners covering serverless and containers
- hands-on tutorial for infrastructure as code with cloudformation
- learn ci/cd pipelines on aws with codepipeline
- build and deploy a full stack web app on aws
- practice deploying docker containers to ecs fargate
- guided lab for aws modern application architecture

## When to choose
- you are an AWS beginner wanting a structured, end-to-end guided tutorial
- you want to learn how AWS services fit together in a realistic web application
- you prefer learning by building a complete sample project rather than reading docs
- you need a workshop curriculum for teaching modern app development on AWS

## When to avoid
- you need production-ready application code or a maintained framework
- you want an AWS-agnostic or multi-cloud tutorial
- you cannot create an AWS account or are unwilling to incur small cloud costs
- you need up-to-date content - the last release was August 2023 and some AWS console steps may have drifted

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: maintenance
- function: infrastructure-as-code, ci-cd, deployment, container-runtime, serverless, web-framework
- domain: cloud-computing, web-development, tutorials, developer-tools
- platform: cloud, cross-platform
- tags: aws, tutorial, workshop, mythical-mysfits, cloudformation, codepipeline, docker, lambda, beginner-friendly, devops

## Member repositories
- aws-samples/aws-modern-application-workshop (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:52.635122+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:33:29.092575+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-modern-application-workshop (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:52.635122+00:00, sha 3c3bc47de343)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.