A free, hands-on bootcamp for aspiring cloud engineers everywhere — taught with West African stories and examples. 8 labs, 4 weeks, 1 capstone project. Slides, animated quizzes, story explainers, and a community — all open-source.
📕 Or just download the curriculum PDF →Block ~1 hour this week to do these. If you finish setup before Sat 23rd May, you'll spend the first session learning AWS — not fighting your laptop.
Click through these in order. Each is a focused walkthrough with West Africa-specific tips.
Every week brings 2 hands-on labs, a Saturday live session, and an animated quiz. Content unlocks each Friday at 6 PM GMT.
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Get the announcement plus discuss the labs with 100+ other students across West Africa. The pulse of the cohort.
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Cloud concepts explained through Ghanaian stories. Open one when you're tired of slides — let the analogies do the heavy lifting.
VPC, Subnets, NACLs, Security Groups explained through Kojo's farmland.
Week 2Auto Scaling & Load Balancers through Circle Station's busiest morning.
Week 3IAM — users, roles, policies, groups — through a market's permission system.
Week 1RDS · DynamoDB · S3 — three databases as three storage cabinets.
Week 2Regions, AZs, and Edge Locations through a Ghana Post delivery network.
Week 1SQS, SNS, and EventBridge through a busy banking hall on payday.
BonusA new AWS joke every morning and evening. Because cloud is serious enough already.
Filter by week or category. Track what you know. Free, no signup.
After Week 4, form teams of 3-4 and pick a project. Build a real Streamlit app on EC2. Demo it live. Win mini-awards.
Tourists upload photos of Ghanaian landmarks — get back identification, audio narration, and translation in their language.
QR code feedback for chop bars and shops. Sentiment, entities, real-time alerts. The one you could actually sell.
Upload a CV, paste a job description. Get a match score, missing skills, and improvement tips. The one you'll use.
Five mini-awards up for grabs: 🎨 Most Polished · 💡 Most Innovative · 🎤 Best Demo · 📚 Best Documentation · ❤️ People's Choice
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