🚀 LEAP Stacks 2 — The AI Launchpad for AWS
Launch. Explore. Adapt. Prototype.
Deploy production-ready AI agents, RAG systems, and full-stack chatbots to your own AWS account in minutes — no AWS expertise required.
Stop wrestling with infrastructure. Start shipping agents.
🌉 Why this exists
Most AI prototypes die in the “Production Valley of Despair” — the gap between a local demo and a secure, observable, production-grade AWS agent.
Web developers can usually get an agent working, but turning it into something that is scalable, secure, observable, and cost-controlled forces them to solve infrastructure, IAM, observability, and deployment all at once. That’s where momentum dies.
LEAP Stacks 2 bridges this gap by providing infrastructure-as-code templates that install directly into your AWS account via a single CloudFormation deployment and integrate easily.
The 12 included stacks launch instantly, can be used as standalone full-stack applications, or they can connect with each other like lego blocks to build larger web applications.
It gives you a real, production-shaped system on day one, so you can:
- Learn by interacting with a live system (not diagrams)
- Validate behavior, cost, and latency early
- Adapt the agent, not fight the infrastructure
- Decide what’s worth taking to production — and what isn’t
A prototype isn’t a demo.
It’s an adapted system under real conditions.
🔥 What's in LEAP Stacks v2?
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⚡ Zero-to-Production in minutes
Single-click deployment. No CLI, CDK, or Terraform required. -
🛡️ Zero “Bill Shock” by Default
Every stack includes an optional 2-hour auto-cleanup timer, removing the #1 fear developers have when experimenting on AWS. -
📊 Production Observability from Day One
Live cost-per-message, token usage, latency, and request logs — not afterthoughts. -
🧠 Multi-Model Freedom
Instantly switch between 20+ foundation models, including Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Amazon Nova Pro, etc. -
🧩 Opinionated, but Escapable
Start with best-practice defaults — then go under the hood when you’re ready.
🏗️ Prototype Catalog
LEAP Stacks 2 includes 12 pre-built prototypes, grouped to take you from cloud fundamentals to advanced agentic workflows.
1️⃣ Advanced Agentic Workflows
| Prototype | Description |
|---|---|
| Agentic Automation (n8n) | Fully hosted n8n for visual AI workflow automation |
| Voice AI Agent | Real-time speech-to-speech agent powered by Amazon Nova Sonic 2 |
| Autonomous Agent Runtime | Self-updating agent environment with memory + code editor |
| Agent with MCP Tools | Serverless agent using Model Context Protocol tools |
2️⃣ GenAI Foundations
| Prototype | Description |
|---|---|
| Website Chat (Multimodal) | Agent that can view websites, answer questions, and monitor changes |
| RAG Knowledge Base (Aurora) | Full-stack RAG with relational + vector storage |
| RAG Knowledge Base (OpenSearch) | Secure vector search with AI agents |
| GenAI Chatbot | Minimal serverless chatbot with secure API Key |
3️⃣ AWS Foundations
| Prototype | Description |
|---|---|
| Deploy from GitHub | Auto-deploy apps from GitHub to AWS Amplify |
| Authentication & User Management | Secure auth with admin approval workflow |
| Serverless Photo Gallery | Upload and browse images using cloud storage |
| Serverless CRUD App | Notes app demonstrating serverless data patterns |
🚀 Quickstart
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Deploy the Environment
Uploadleap-installer-setup.yamlto the AWS CloudFormation Console and choose a secure username/password. -
Access the Dashboard
Once the stack isCREATE_COMPLETE(~50 seconds), open the LoginURL from Stack Outputs. -
Login
Enter the username/password from step 1 to Login. -
Launch a Prototype
Pick a prototype (e.g. Voice AI Agent) and click Launch. -
Explore & Adapt
Edit agent memory live, swap models mid-session, and compare behavior, cost, and latency instantly.
✨ What’s New in Version 2
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🚢 Ship Anywhere
Export full-stack prototypes to GitHub in one click — ready to fork and extend. -
🎨 Vibe Coding Integration
Import stacks into Kiro for spec-driven development with custom steering docs. -
🌐 External App Hosting
Securely import and host Lovable and Replit apps in your AWS account. -
🧠 Live Memory Editing
Browser-based agent logic editing for AgentCore agents in real time.
🧠 How This Is Different from “Samples”
Most AWS samples:
- Require cloning repos and running CLIs
- Focus on single services or narrow use cases
- Skip cost controls and observability
- Leave you with cleanup debt
LEAP Stacks:
- Launches full-stack systems, not snippets
- Installs into your AWS account, not a shared sandbox
- Includes auto-cleanup and live cost signals
- Teaches by running, not reading
Think of it as:
A playground + a blueprint + a safety net
🤜🤛 Team
Creator/developer: Basil Fateen
Security reviewers: Erik Hanchet, Cobus Bernard Contributors and testers: Aaron Hunter, Du'An Lightfoot, Veliswa Boya, Julian Wood, Daniel Geske, Ricardo Sueiras, Salih Gueler, Noureldin Ehab, Ahmed Samir, Awedis Keofteian, Oluwatobi Mustapha, Saurabh Dahal
🤝 Community
Join the LEAP Stacks discord server for info, updates, discussions and to get help: https://discord.gg/DXhFXDQ8
We welcome contributors ❤️
📜 License
Distributed under the MIT License.