📖 Story Explainers — bonus learning
📖 Story Explainers — bonus learning
Cloud concepts explained through Ghanaian stories. Single-page interactive walkthroughs that map AWS concepts to things you already know — markets, trotros, postmen, banking halls.
These aren’t required to finish the bootcamp. But they’re some of the most-shared content cloudwithshad publishes. Open one when you’re tired of slides — let the analogies do the heavy lifting.
📚 The library
| Story | Maps to | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 🌾 Nkrumah Valley — AWS Networking | VPC, Subnets, NACLs, Security Groups | ✅ Live |
| 🚐 Trotro Station — Auto Scaling & Load Balancing | ALB, Auto Scaling Groups, Health Checks | ✅ Live |
| 🛍️ Makola Market — AWS IAM | Users, Roles, Policies, Groups, Root | ✅ Live |
| 🍲 Restaurant Kitchen — AWS Databases | RDS, DynamoDB, S3 | ✅ Live |
| 📮 Postman — AWS Regions & AZs | Regions, AZs, Edge Locations | ✅ Live |
| 🏦 Banking Hall — AWS Messaging | SQS, SNS, EventBridge | ✅ Live |
🚧 Coming soon
- 🧵 Tailor’s Workshop — EBS vs EFS vs Instance Store
- 📒 Recipe Book — CloudFormation & Infrastructure as Code
- 🗣️ Village Translator — AI service chaining
- 🔍 Detective’s Case File — Textract & Comprehend
💡 How to use these
- Stuck on a concept during a lab? Open the matching story.
- Studying for the Cloud Practitioner exam? Open all six the week before — they make remembering effortless.
- Sharing with a friend who keeps asking “what’s the cloud?”. These were designed to be shareable. Send the link.
✍️ Have an idea for a new story?
We’re always looking for great cultural analogies. Drop a suggestion in Discussions or open a PR with the HTML.
Each story file is self-contained — single HTML file, custom palette, scroll-triggered SVG animations. Use any existing one as a template.
⬅️ Back to repo