We're at Amazon Web Services for Game Day.

EDF recently had the privilege of attending an AWS Game Day, and Crows Nest Films was there with Cream Content to share the experience.  We've been working with Cream and EDF for many years and this event is a favourite with Software Engineers.  Carney and Cameron set off with Victoria Furness to capture the fun.

The event welcomed a diverse group of engineers, ranging from those with limited AWS knowledge to seasoned experts, ready to immerse themselves in this dynamic learning opportunity. 

The AWS GameDays serve as an opportunity to learn more about AWS services in a gamified, friendly, and accessible way, whilst having a bit of good-natured competition with colleagues. They follow the journey of a fictitious ride-hailing service ‘Unicorn Rentals’, and each GameDay represents a step forward in that company’s journey. This means that you work on real-world problems and scenarios that actually frequently occur, but in a completely risk-free environment, resulting in a really great space to learn. The days are also deliberately quite ambiguous, with just rough tasks outlined, and complete freedom on how to go about solving them. This encourages a lot of creativity and gives total freedom to investigate things yourself, rather than just following overly-specific instructions step-by-step, which makes you complete tasks on autopilot without actually absorbing that much by the end of the day. So-called ‘Chaos’ events also occur during the day, triggering something to go wrong that you have to try and fix on the fly as quickly as you can, before losing any more points…

Prizes were given out to the top three teams at the end of the day, with everyone keen to get their hands on a Firestick or cool t shirt…

Game Day is an opportunity to network and socialise with other engineers at EDF, meeting new people and getting to see people in person that you’ve only ever met virtually.