Worklog Week 1

Week 1 Objectives: Onboarding & AWS Fundamentals

  • Familiarize with internship environment and regulations
  • Understand AWS overview and main services
  • Setup AWS account and basic tools
  • Form team and align on project ideas
  • Participate in FCAJ Community Day event

Weekly Tasks:

DayTaskStartCompleteReference
MonOnboarding:
- Read and note internship regulations
- Create LinkedIn account and connect with mentor
- Meet team members
- Form project team		09/03/202609/03/2026AWS Training
TueAWS Overview:
- Understand AWS platform and main service groups:
 + Compute (EC2, Lambda)
 + Storage (S3, EBS)
 + Networking (VPC)
 + Database (RDS, DynamoDB)
- Understand Cloud Computing models		10/03/202610/03/2026AWS Cloud Concepts
WedSetup AWS Account:
- Register AWS Free Tier account
- Configure MFA for Root User
- Setup basic Billing Alarm
- Familiarize with AWS Management Console		11/03/202611/03/2026Create AWS Account
ThuLearn IAM (Identity and Access Management):
- Understand IAM User, Group, Role, Policy
- Least Privilege principle
- Practice: Create IAM User and assign basic permissions
- Manage Access Key and Secret Key		12/03/202612/03/2026IAM Best Practices
FriProject Brainstorming & Architecture:
- Team meeting for brainstorming
- Discuss and propose ideas
- Align on topic: “AI-based English Communication Skill Development System”
- Initial exploration of cloud architecture and Serverless Architecture		13/03/202613/03/2026AWS Architecture Center

Week 1 Results:

1. Successful Onboarding:

  • ✅ Understood internship processes and regulations
  • ✅ Created LinkedIn account and connected with mentor
  • ✅ Met team members
  • ✅ Formed project team and assigned initial roles

2. AWS Fundamentals:

  • ✅ Understood AWS platform overview and main service groups
  • ✅ Grasped Cloud Computing concepts and IaaS, PaaS, SaaS models
  • ✅ Successfully setup AWS Free Tier account
  • ✅ Familiarized with AWS Management Console

3. Account Management & Security:

  • ✅ Configured MFA to protect Root account
  • ✅ Setup basic Billing Alarm for cost control
  • ✅ Understood IAM concepts: User, Group, Role, Policy
  • ✅ Able to create users, assign permissions, and manage access at basic level
  • ✅ Grasped Least Privilege principle in access management

4. Project Direction:

  • ✅ Aligned on topic: “AI-based English Communication Skill Development System”
  • ✅ Identified problem: Help learners practice English speaking with AI Tutor
  • ✅ Initial vision of cloud system architecture
  • ✅ Understood how AWS components interact

5. Networking & Learning:

  • ✅ Participated in “FCAJ Community Day” at Bitexco Financial Tower
  • ✅ Learned about Platform Engineering and GenAIOps
  • ✅ Explored trends in building AI applications on AWS
  • ✅ Gained additional ideas and knowledge from experts for the project

Challenges and Solutions:

Challenge 1: Unfamiliar with AWS environment and many new services

  • Solution: Focus on learning core services first, read documentation and practice

Challenge 2: Determining appropriate project scope for 8-week timeline

  • Solution: Team discussion, consult mentor, prioritize MVP

Challenge 3: Unclear how to integrate AI into the system

  • Solution: Research AWS AI services (Bedrock, Transcribe, Polly) in next week

Next Week Plan:

  • Understand Serverless architecture on AWS and application to web applications
  • Research services: AWS Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB
  • Explore AI service integration (Bedrock, Transcribe, Polly)
  • Design preliminary system architecture following serverless approach
  • Align on UI, colors, template and frontend development tools
  • Practice building some basic features