I Built a Minecraft Mod Where Every Sword is an AWS Service — Here's How We Coded It with AI What happens when a cloud engineer picks up Minecraft modding for the first time? You get swords that invoke Lambda functions, store items in S3 buckets, and auto-scale damage like EC2 instances. Today we're going deep into how I built AWS Swords — a Fabric mod for Minecraft 1.21.1 where every weapon is inspired by a real AWS service, and every ability maps to actual cloud computing concepts. The concept is straightforward: take the services we use every day in the cloud and turn them into Minecraft weapons with abilities that actually make sense. Lambda is serverless and ephemeral? The sword summons temporary allies that disappear after a few seconds. S3 stores objects? The sword absorbs items from the ground and retrieves them later. EC2 scales? The sword stacks damage the more you hit. And the best part — I coded this entire mod alongside an AI agent.…