The Builder’s Playbook: Engineering Impact Through Community and Code.

In the Spirit of Open Source, we are sharing our DataFest Africa Slides! 🌍✨

At DataFest Africa 2025, our breakout session as AWS Cloud Club Makerere University was a discussion about 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿’𝘀 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸: 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲.

For everyone who attended, and those who couldn't make it, we’re excited to share this resource openly.

Feel free to dive in, remix, reuse, and pick up a thing or two. 😊

𝗪𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱:
🔸 The 3Cs of Impact: Community, Code & Collaboration
🔸 Hands-on cloud mindset
🔸 Mini ideathon: 5-minute problem

Let’s keep the learning open, accessible, and growing 💛☁️

Transcript

1. THE BUILDER’S PLAYBOOK: ENGINEERING IMPACT THROUGH COMMUNITY AND CODE DataFest Africa 2025 MAKERERE
2. Captain , AWS Cloud Club ABOUT US... Makerere University A tech enthusiast, innovator, and social entrepreneur. Co-founder of MpaMpe, a crowdfunding startup promoting transparency and accountability through blockchain and AI, and the Lead Researcher at Farm Zenith, an initiative leveraging technology to drive climate-resilient and data-driven farming. Actively fosters innovation through community tech events & passionate about empowering communities and leveraging technology for positive change. Ronnie Atuhaire
3. A passionate software engineer, student leader, and tech enthusiast dedicated to innovation and community growth. Currently pursuing studies at Makerere University, Shakiran is driven by a strong interest in UI/UX design, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing. Using these tools to build impactful and user-centered solutions. Deeply passionate about design, technology, and empowering communities, she actively fosters growth through leadership, collaboration, and advocating for inclusive tech spaces where innovation thrives Co-Captain , AWS Cloud Club ABOUT US... Makerere University Shakiran Nannyombi
4. HISTORY AND MILESTONES Founding year 2002: Introduced as tools for developers to integrate amazon.com features Key milestones Growth timeline 2006: Launched its first key cloud services: S3 & EC2 2016: 10Bn Business Company 202O: First African Region Datacenter in Capetown 2023: Amazon Bedrock for Generative AI 2025-2030: Quantum Computing & AI
5. REGIONS ZONES EDGE LOCATIONS Data Centers: Across 30+ geographic regions including N. Virginia, Frankfurt, Mumbai, Cape Town, and more. GLOBAL PRESENCE... 35+ 110+ 450+
6. MARKET SHARE
7. Networking VPC, CloudFront, Route 53, API Gateway Analytics EMR, Athena, Glue, QuickSight ML/AI SageMaker, Bedrock, Rekognition, Comprehend Dev Tools CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CloudFormation, CloudWatch IoT & Edge IoT Core, Greengrass, Snow Family Security & Identity IAM, KMS, Shield, WAF Compute EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS, Lightsail Storage S3, EFS, Glacier, FSx Hybrid & Edge Outposts, Local Zones, Wavelength Database RDS, DynamoDB, Redshift, Aurora KEY SERVICES
8. OUR MISSION OTHER COMMUNITIES AWS CLUB OVERVIEW BRIEF INTRODUCTION The AWS Cloud Club is a dynamic community for students and professionals eager to dive deep into Cloud Computing with the support from Amazon Web Services. To create a supportive environment where members can learn, share knowledge, and innovate with cutting-edge cloud technologies. Other community programs include AWS Heroes, Community Builders, and User Groups
9. MINI-IDEATHON BUILDER’S PLAYBOOK SOLUTION PROPOSED IMPACT & COMMUNITY PROBLEM STATEMENT 5 MINUTES
11. LEARNING REFLECTIONS
12. BUILDER’S PLAYBOOK COMMUNITY CODE collaboration Find Your Squad, Learn in Public, Lift as You Climb. Start with Why, Leverage the Tech, Build-Measure-Learn. Learn to work with the established community for further progress UNVEILED
13. Service Timeline Key Issue Amazon DynamoDB Oct 19, 11:48 PM - Oct 20, 2:40 AM API errors & connection failures Amazon EC2 Oct 20, 2:25 AM - 1:50 PM New instance launch failures & network issues Network Load Balancer (NLB) Oct 20, 5:30 AM - 2:09 PM Increased connection errors AWS US-EAST-1 SERVICE DISRUPTION 🎯 The Root Cause: A Cascading Failure The Trigger: A latent race condition in DynamoDB's DNS management automation caused its public endpoint (dynamodb.us-east-1.amazonaws.com) to return an empty DNS record.
14. https://aws.amazon.com/message/101925/ POST MORTEM REPORT
15. +256 703 151 746 CONTACT awsclubmuk@gmail.com Makerere University https://tinyurl.com/awsmukclub
16. Join Our Growing Community! https://tinyurl.com/awsmukclub