Entrepreneur Connect Africa

Entrepreneur Connect Africa has since inception, created a movement of entrepreneurs who are on a mission to share insights, experiences and support through buying from each other as well as recommending each other where relevant products/services are required.

Entrepreneur Connect Africa

Challenges


Entrepreneur Connect Africa (EC-Africa) is looking to build Africa’s largest database with verified businesses and entrepreneurs. The fully functional Web based App will also serve as a meeting point for Funders and Businesses owners who are seeking partnerships that suit their current objectives.

This cloud native web app will be hosted in AWS. Using services these services: Amazon Cognito, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS MySQL, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Route 53, Amazon ECS. And these developer tools: Amazon CodePipeline, Amazon CodeWhisperer, AWS CDK 

Solution


CI/CD Pipeline Setup: 

Continuous Integration (CI): Utilized AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and mirrored Bitbucket to CodeCommit to automate build and testing workflows. 

Continuous Delivery (CD): Implemented AWS CodeDeploy to automate the deployment process to various environments (development, QA, production). 

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Used AWS CloudFormation to manage and provision infrastructure resources in a consistent and repeatable manner. 

Monitoring and Logging: Integrated AWS CloudWatch for comprehensive monitoring and logging, enabling real-time insights into application performance and issues.