1. How I failed to become an AWS
Community Builder
But how I will succeed next time and how you could as well
2. Who
• Already is an AWS Community builder?
• Want’s to become an AWS Community
Builder?
• Thinks this is something weird?
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3. Enri
Peters
• Full time nerd
• Mission Critical Engineer at Schuberg Philis
• AWS Addict
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5. Umh..
what
program?
• Offered by AWS since 2020
• Group of AWS addicts/advocates
• Passionate and eager to learn
• Love sharing
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6. Who are the
key people
around this
program?
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8. Do you (really) want to
become an AWS
Community Builder?
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9. Well, if
you
want to
• Make an impact
• Be part of something special
• Build (long-term) relationships
• Help others in their AWS Cloud journey
• Be recognised in the AWS community
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10. And.. • Believe in the success of a group of people
above that of the individual
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11. Then • You probably want to
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14. Quotes
“How does a project get to be a year
behind schedule? One day at a time.”
“I’m going to stop putting things off,
starting tomorrow!”
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15. Overplanning
instead of
doing
• Speaking
• Give workshops
• Train colleagues
• YouTube
• Live Streaming
• Write blogs
• Podcast
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35. And
more
• A Cloud Guru
• Cloud Academy
• Udemy
• Coursera
• Whizlabs
• MeasureUp
• …
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36. But I have a busy
life (and kids)
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37. Me too
• Used it as an excuse
• Start doing instead of thinking
• GitHub account -> DEV.to (1m)
• Save drafts
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38. Trust me
• Change habits
• Start by 15/30 minutes
• Start today (create dev.to account)
• Find a coach
• Have a weekly catchup
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40. I am NOT
convinced!
Sounds like
a lot of
work!
• 30 minutes a day
• Make it part of your daily job
• Self growth
• Rewarding
• Meet new people
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42. Benefits
• Get recognised
• Slack
• SME
• Access to product teams
• Promotional credits
• And most importantly…
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44. I am
convinced
! But how
to apply?
• Two cycles each year
• Waitlist
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45. Good to
know
• Around 2300 worldwide
• Asia Pacific
• Europe, Middle East, & Africa
• Latin America
• USA & Canada
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46. What has
changed
for me?
• I am standing here
• I have written a blog
• I have created a YouTube channel (with
banner)
• Doing weekly catch-ups
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48. My colleagues
will be having
sessions too, so
make sure you
do not miss out
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20.30 hours Martijn van
Dongen – “Cloud Education At
Scale”
20.30 hours Jos Vliegenthart –
“Cloud exit as a service (CEaaS):
strategized and stress-free”
Editor's Notes
Hey and thanks
Why would I?
Well on August 17 I got this e-mail
Now let me explain what I could have done better
First allow me to explain what the AWS Community Builders porgram is
Offered by AWS since 2020
Group of AWS addicts/advocates
Passionate and eager to learn
Love sharing
Jason Dunn - Builders Program Manager
Farrah Campbell - Product Marketing Manager
Make an impact
Be part of something special
Build (long-term) relationships
Help others in their AWS Cloud journey
Be recognised in the AWS community
Believe in the success of a group of people above that of the individual
You probably want to
Stop delaying!
Force yourself to make the first step
First step always hardest
Speaking
Give workshops
Train colleagues
YouTube
Live Streaming
Write blogs
Postcast
All at once
YouTube banner
Intro video
Any value?
You always have something new to share
Twitter
LinkedIn
124K followers
427 User Groups over the world
Personal opinion
https://dev.to
https://medium.com
Start today!
Twitter
AWS re:Post
Stack Overflow
Reddit
ExamPro
A Cloud Guru
Cloud Academy
Udemy
Coursera
Whizlabs
MeasureUp
…
Used it as an excuse
Start doing instead of thinking
GitHub account -> DEV.to (1m)
Save drafts
30 minutes a day
Make it part of your daily job
Self growth
Rewarding
Meet new people
Many benefits.
Getting recognised more
Community Builders Slack
Other Community Builders, AWS employees including subject matter experts
You can learn a lot from them
Access to AWS product teams and information
Promotional Credits
But most importantly
Around 1300 worldwide
Two categories
Asia Pacific
Europe, Middle East, & Africa
Latin America
USA & Canada
I am standing here
I have written a blog
I have created a YouTube channel (with banner)
Doing weekly catch-ups
Convince
