The AWS Serverless Application Repository offers a collection of ready-to-deploy, open source serverless applications that enable other developers and organizations to use them, build upon them, and accelerate their workflows. The Serverless Application Repository showcases applications for popular use cases such as Alexa skills, machine learning, media processing, monitoring, data transformation, notification services, location services, and IoT.

The Serverless Application Repository is teaming up with nonprofits who have dedicated themselves to ending human trafficking. These nonprofits utilize a variety of technologies to help analyze and transform data and to identify, monitor and locate children and traffickers. 

Our Serverless Apps for Social Good hackathon invites you to publish serverless applications that can be used as stand-alone assets and/or as inputs that can be combined with other applications to add to the open-source serverless ecosystem and to support the work being done by developers and nonprofit organizations around the world. Creating a serverless application focused on ending trafficking is not required to be eligible to win category prizes, but it is required to be eligible to win the two related bonus prizes.

To read about the issues our nonprofit partners are solving and to get ideas for building serverless applications that can help their mission, visit our Nonprofit Resources. 

Technical Note: The Serverless Application Repository only supports specific resources and policy templates for AWS SAM. Please review the supported resources and policy templates before building your application!

• Supported Resources and Policy Templates: Documentation
• General AWS SAM information: AWS SAM on GitHub
• Building with AWS SAM: AWS SAM application examples on GitHub
• Request additional supported resources via AWS Support by Friday, September 21 >>
• Request new policy templates using the two steps listed here by Friday, September 21 >>

$22,000 in prizes

1. Register on Devpost to receive updates and announcements
2. Create a free AWS account (if you don’t already have one)
3. Find examples and learn more about the AWS Serverless Application Repository 
4. Build a serverless application that can be used in one of the four categories and package your app using AWS SAM. The Serverless Application Repository only supports specific resources and policy templates for AWS SAM. Please review the supported resources and policy templates before building your application! 

   Request additional supported resources via AWS Support by Friday, September 21 >>

   Request new policy templates using the two steps listed here by Friday, September 21 >>

5. Publish your serverless application to the AWS Serverless Application Repository and make it publicly available using an open source license 
6. Enter your submission at serverlessrepo.devpost.com, including your demo video and the link to your public application in the Serverless Application Repository before the deadline for a chance to win prizes for yourself and a nonprofit

• Quality of the Idea
  (Includes the creativity and originality of the idea and the extent to which it focuses on social good.)
• Implementation of the Idea
  (Includes how well the idea was executed by the developer and the clarity of the application documentation.)
• Potential Impact
  (Includes the extent to which the solution can help customers across multiple industries and the extent it can be potentially adapted to other use cases.)