Cloud Engineering Portfolio Projects

Practice the cloud skills employers look for by building deployable projects in infrastructure, automation, observability, and platform engineering. Each guide helps you turn a hands-on build into something you can demonstrate.

Career areas

• Cloud Engineer
• DevOps Engineer
• Platform Engineer

Browse Cloud Computing projects

• Cloud-Native Serverless Monitoring & Alerting System

  A serverless AWS solution that tracks uptime and performance of remote IT assets, triggering Slack alerts on failure.

  Level: intermediate · Tools: AWS Lambda, CloudWatch, Python, Slack API

• Serverless AI Content Summarizer with Amazon Bedrock

  A fully serverless web app where users upload docs for AI summarization using AWS Lambda and Bedrock (Claude 3).

  Level: intermediate · Tools: AWS Lambda, Amazon Bedrock, S3, DynamoDB

• Multi-Cloud FinOps & Cost Optimization Dashboard

  A dashboard that aggregates billing data from AWS and Azure, identifies "zombie" resources, and visualizes potential savings.

  Level: intermediate · Tools: Terraform, Python, AWS/Azure Billing APIs, Grafana

• Cloud-Native Platform Engineering: Self-Healing GitOps Pipeline

  A production-grade Kubernetes environment with ArgoCD GitOps, Istio service mesh, and automated canary releases.

  Level: advanced · Tools: Kubernetes (EKS), ArgoCD, Istio, Helm

• Static Site on S3 + CloudFront with a Custom Domain

  Your first real cloud deployment — a site served from S3 through a CloudFront CDN, on a domain you own, with HTTPS and automatic cache invalidation on every deploy.

  Level: beginner · Tools: AWS S3, CloudFront, Route 53, AWS Certificate Manager

• Keyless Container Deploys: ECS Fargate with Terraform and GitHub OIDC

  A containerized web service deployed to AWS ECS Fargate entirely from code — Terraform builds the infrastructure, GitHub Actions builds and ships the image, and the pipeline authenticates with short-lived OIDC tokens instead of stored cloud keys.

  Level: intermediate · Tools: Terraform, AWS ECS Fargate, Amazon ECR, GitHub Actions OIDC

• Full Observability Stack with OpenTelemetry and Grafana LGTM

  A sample application instrumented with OpenTelemetry sending logs, metrics, and traces through a Collector into Loki, Prometheus, and Tempo — with Grafana dashboards where you can click from a slow request to its trace to its logs.

  Level: intermediate · Tools: OpenTelemetry SDK + Collector, Grafana, Loki, Tempo

• Internal Developer Platform with Backstage, Crossplane, and Kyverno

  A self-service platform on Kubernetes — developers pick a template in Backstage, Crossplane provisions the cloud resources declaratively, ArgoCD keeps it in sync, and Kyverno policies block anything that violates the rules. The platform-engineering stack, end to end.

  Level: advanced · Tools: Backstage, Crossplane, ArgoCD, Kyverno