Feat/improve ri projects

[cwang]

Description

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Fixes/Implements #(issue/feature)

Type of change

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Refactor and code improvement (non-breaking change which improves code quality and/or performance)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)
• Documentation
• Tests
• Other chores such as maintenance

How Has This Been Tested?

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• Test A
• Test B
• Test C

Test Configuration:

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• I have performed a self-review of my own code
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• I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
• My changes generate no new warnings
• I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my feature works
• New and existing unit tests pass locally with my changes
• Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules
• I have checked my code and corrected any misspellings
• The commit message follows the convention of this project

[cwang]

@janaka this has all the changes to both sample projects - could you have a quick look, especially the awscdk one where thee's a build error pls? I copied from both #72 and #73

[janaka]

I think this looks fine.