The opening shot
The curtain, the auditorium and the follow-spot are rendered live in the browser: velvet folds, a slow dolly down the aisle, and a beam of light traced through drifting haze. It adapts to every phone.
SPOTLIGHT · End credits
Made by AWS SBG
The website for SPOTLIGHT – Talents Day 2026, from the first frame of the curtain to the big screen on the day, was designed, engineered and launched by AWS SBG.
Designed, built & deployed by
C Varun
AWS SBG
What went into it
Every scene, built from scratch.
Registration
Google sign-in, a five-step form that knows every club and talent, first-years without a USN welcome, and photos resized on the device before they upload.
Admin & running order
Search, filters and spreadsheet export for organisers, read-only views for club presidents, and a drag-and-drop running order with start times for every act.
The big screen
A live projector view, driven from a phone or a clicker backstage, that puts each performer’s photo, name and fun fact on screen as they walk on.
Built on AWS
Amazon EC2 on Graviton in Mumbai, Amazon S3 for photos, the database streamed to S3 every second, and HTTPS throughout. Resized for the rush in a single command.
Ready for the rush
Load-tested with 900 people on the site at once and 900 registrations arriving together: every one stored, not a single failed request.
Fin.
A production of AWS SBG for SPOTLIGHT – Talents Day 2026
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