Fix a Real AWS Incident — Live, in a Managed Cloud Lab
The alert that never sleeps
It's 2 a.m. The app is down. The EC2 instance can't reach its RDS database, and a support ticket just landed in your queue. Sound like your future job? Good — because that's exactly what you'll practice here.
AcirrusTech hands you a real, pre-broken AWS account and a support-style ticket. Your mission: diagnose the failure, fix it, and prove it works.
What you'll actually do
- Read the ticket like an on-call engineer would
- Trace the connection from EC2 to RDS
- Find the misconfiguration — a security group? a subnet route? a missing rule?
- Fix it the right way (no lazy
0.0.0.0/0shortcuts — the grader will catch you)
Graded automatically, instantly
When you think it's fixed, hit Check. An automated grader inspects the live environment and tells you pass or fail — the same signal a real monitoring system would give you.
No credit card. No local setup. No "it works on my machine."
Everything runs in your browser: a streamed AWS console alongside VS Code, fully managed. Break things safely, fix them for real, and build the muscle memory that actually gets you hired.