AWS Community Builders Holidays posts 2022
Tags: cbchristmas2022, awscommunity
Published: 2022-12-20 09:00:00

A very warm welcome from the [AWS Community Builders](https://aws.amazon.com/developer/community/community-builders/) to the 2022 Holiday Season!

As you might have heard or [read](https://dev.to/aws-builders/a-few-personal-stories-from-reinvent-2022-4g09) before, during re:Invent 2022 a few AWS community builders went out to a "pre:Invent Hike" to the "Arizona Hot Springs" - and thats where the idea for operation "HotChowSprings" was born.
This is a VERY SECRET initiative that we are disclosing with this post :-)

When we (Jenn, Ganesh, Traian , Pubudu, Niklas, Richard, Oliver and Johannes) spent time together hiking, we had the idea to give our Community Management Team a little year end present.

**So we have asked "a lot of" Community Builders to contribute with a series of Blog Posts answering a few small questions.**

But first, lets mention our community team from AWS that supports the Community Builders (and other community projects) by name: 
[Ross Barich](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rossbarich/)
[Taylor Lacy](https://www.linkedin.com/in/taylorjacobsen/)
[Albert Zhao](https://www.linkedin.com/in/albert-zhao-49b62a129/)
[Ernesto Alvarez](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ernalv2/)
[Caroline Kerns](https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolinekerns/)
[Jason Dunn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonrobertdunn/)
[Karissa Fuller](https://www.linkedin.com/in/karissa-m-wood)
[Mark Pergola](https://www.linkedin.com/in/markpergola/)
[Thembile Ndlovu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/thembile-nonhle-ndlovu/)
[Maria Encinar](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariaencinar/)
[Nelly Andrade](https://www.linkedin.com/in/patyandradediaz/)
[Wesley Faulkner](https://www.linkedin.com/in/wesley83/)
[Shafraz Rahim](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shafrazrahim/)

Our community team supports us with a ton of different things: 
They organize sessions and webinars with AWS teams or other Subject Matter Experts that help us to understand AWS servicies better or help us to level up our knowledge. We also had a fantastic session with Jeff Barr around "how to write technical blog posts" - the team brings in AWS leadership to educate us and hear our feedback as Community Builders. The team also manages the different program benefits (like certification vouchers, AWS credits) for us but even more important, the team answers EVERY single Slack message of more than 2500 community builders world wide (and I think at least I am asking on average 5 questions per week :-))

All posts that have been created as part of this initiative are meant to *thank this amazing team* that makes being part of the community awesome and makes us collaborate.
It is your dedication, responsiveness and your ideas that help all of us grow as part of the AWS Community Builders program.
(__if you are interested to join after reading this, [join the waitlist](https://pages.awscloud.com/aws-community-builders-program-waitlist.html)__)

![Happy Holidays](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/aq0zpqoolkgh2oxcpl9z.png)

Besides some information from Community Builders around the program, what they like about it and what SWAG they love most, you'll also be getting a bunch of recipes for making your next dinner or lunch...different :-)
**Let us know which recipe you like most!**

## Community Builders contributions

- [Jenn Bergstrom](https://dev.to/aws-builders/community-builders-christmas-edition-4lh0)
- [Richard Fan](https://dev.to/aws-builders/community-builders-christmas-edition-483e)
- [Alex Radu](https://dev.to/aws-builders/an-aws-community-builders-holiday-story-55oi)
- [Aritra Nag](https://dev.to/aws-builders/an-aws-community-builders-holiday-story-4117)
- [Danielle Heberling](https://dev.to/aws-builders/community-builders-christmas-edition-3k56)
- [Oksana Horlock](https://dev.to/aws-builders/merry-christmas-from-an-aws-community-builder-il4)
- [Nick Gilbert](https://dev.to/ncksecuritydude/operation-hot-chow-springs-b8f)
- [Vadym Kazulkin](https://dev.to/aws-builders/an-aws-community-builders-xmas-story-36bi)
- [Pubudu Jayawardana](https://dev.to/aws-builders/an-aws-community-builders-holiday-story-37mb)
- [Avinash Dalvi](https://dev.to/aws-builders/an-aws-community-builders-holiday-story-4oii)
- [Traian Ciobanu](https://dev.to/aws-builders/operation-ho-ho-ho-or-how-aws-community-builders-saved-christmas-52e5)
- [Sridhar Kasukurthy](https://dev.to/aws-builders/aws-community-builders-christmas-and-new-year-2023-oil)
- [Dheeraj Choudhary](https://dev.to/dheeraj3choudhary/aws-community-builders-holidays-posts-2022-38da)
- [Matt Morgan](https://dev.to/aws-builders/appreciation-for-community-managers-26ol)
- [Niklas Westerstråhle](https://dev.to/niklaswesterstrahle/operation-merry-christmas-3ppb?preview=530bb7c7ed1eca927def7c98be581ea6ffeee563473abfb43c27e4dc0d1f063fa7316dd977a4f7ca6321e23cf35dcc3b9fb933940ed1410f87f4f629)
- [Wendy Wong](https://dev.to/aws-builders/secret-santa-with-the-aws-community-1a62)
- [Toshal Khawal](https://dev.to/aws-builders/an-aws-community-builders-holiday-story-o48)
- [Tejas Gupta](https://dev.to/aws-builders/aws-community-builders-holidays-posts-2022-270l)
- [Nandini Rajaram](https://dev.to/aws-builders/aws-community-builders-christmas-and-new-year-2023-4lce)
- [Darya Petrashka](https://dev.to/aws-builders/community-builders-christmas-edition-3j56)
- [Ganesh Swaminathan ](https://dev.to/aws-builders/holiday-wishes-to-our-community-managers-3el4)
- [Nick de Wijer](https://dev.to/aws-builders/an-aws-community-builders-holiday-story-5g02)
- [Abhishek Rajendra Wagh](https://dev.to/aws-builders/aws-community-builders-on-a-holiday-5626)
- [Ranjit Sidhu](https://dev.to/ranjitsidhu180/community-builders-my-experience-4nna)
- [Gilbert Young Jr](https://dev.to/aws-builders/aws-community-builders-christmas-edition-393a)
- [Javier Teran](https://dev.to/aws-builders/una-historia-navidena-de-aws-community-builders-1229)
- [Augusto Valdivia](https://dev.to/aws-builders/aws-community-builders-x-mass-edition-2fnk)
- [Damien Burks](https://dev.to/damienjburks/aws-community-builders-christmas-edition-1mpl)
- [Michael Walmsley](https://dev.to/aws-builders/aws-community-builder-5082)
- [Johannes Koch](https://dev.to/aws-builders/an-aws-community-builders-holiday-story-1d66)


[All posts tagged #cbchristmas2022](https://dev.to/t/cbchristmas2022)

And with that - Happy Holidays Everyone!
Have a great start into 2023!