Localized, Reliable, Secure, and AI‑Integrated Cloud for Sudan.
Sudan’s ongoing infrastructure crisis — intensified by the civil war — has left universities, businesses, and government entities powerless over their own data and services.
Reliance on expensive, foreign cloud providers introduces several critical issues:
- Service Bans: Due to American sanctions and a lack of access to international payment systems.
- High Latency: From data centers located in Europe and the U.S.
- Lack of Data Sovereignty: Essential for regulatory compliance and national security.
In-house solutions are also impractical: they are expensive to build and maintain, unreliable due to frequent power and internet outages, and require substantial technical expertise.
AwkData is a full-stack, Sudanese-built cloud platform designed to serve local needs with global-grade infrastructure. It provides the tools for developers to build, businesses to scale, and a nation to digitize.
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Compute & Storage | Bare-metal virtual machines, container hosting, block and object storage. |
| Managed Services | Databases, Kubernetes, secrets management, DNS, and more. |
| AI-Powered Orchestration | Agentic AI that understands natural language to provision infrastructure. |
| Security & Resilience | End-to-end encryption, DDoS protection, multi-tenant isolation, and continuous monitoring. |
| Local Payments | Native support for Sudanese mobile banking, USSD, and international cards. |
- Phase:
Development - Current Focus: Agentic AI integration and CLI development.
- CI/CD: Pipelines for backend and frontend are operational.
- Deployment: Docker-based local development environment is stable. Production deployment planning is in the backlog.
This project is the web portal and API for the AwkData cloud.
| Area | Technology |
|---|---|
| Cloud Platform |  |
| Backend |   |
| Frontend |     |
| Database |  |
| Cache & Messaging |  |
| Async Tasks |  |
| Containerization |  |
| CI/CD |  |
You can start experienceing the project live at awkdata.com The site is protected with http auth. here are the creds:
- username=code-for-sudan
- password=T3ST_F0R_SUD@N_!XD
- Docker
- Docker Compose
- A
.envfile created from.env.example.
-
Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/YOUR_REPO.git cd YOUR_REPO -
Create your environment file:
cp .env.example .env
Fill in the required secrets and configuration in the
.envfile. -
Build and run the application:
docker compose up -d --build
-
Access the application:
- Frontend: http://localhost:3000
- Backend API: http://localhost:8000/api/v1/
- Architecture: Distributed system including a web application, backend, and OpenStack-based cloud infrastructure.
- Data Center Tier: Starting with Tier-II via partner colocation, with a roadmap toward Tier-III independence.
- Resilience: Multi-AZ architecture with UPS, batteries, solar/gas power redundancy, and horizontal scalability.
- Traction: MVP completed and running on virtualized servers. Bare-metal deployment is in progress.
- First-to-Market: Sudan’s only truly local, production-grade cloud.
- Full-Stack Cloud: From web hosting to microservices — meets all infrastructure needs.
- Sanctions Immune: Fully local hosting and regulation, independent from foreign sanctions.
- Localized UX: Bilingual interface (Arabic/English) with seamless local payment integration.
- High Availability: Low-latency infrastructure backed by robust power and network redundancy.
- Startup Enablement: A launchpad for Sudanese tech startups — the next unicorn could be built on AwkData.
- Empowering Education: Enables universities and schools to host tech labs, learning platforms, sandbox environments, and research datasets locally.
- Pathway to E-Government: Provides the compute backbone for digital public services, citizen portals, and a national GovCloud.
- AI & R&D Enablement: Local researchers and AI teams gain access to scalable, secure infrastructure for training and deploying ML models.
- Tech-Driven Economic Growth: AwkData will be the backbone for digital transformation across finance, health, education, and every major sector.
- Business Continuity: Local hosting ensures operations continue uninterrupted during international service bans or payment gateway disruptions.
- Job Creation & Talent Development: Dozens of high-value jobs in data center operations, software engineering, and cloud architecture.