// Cloud
Cloud and AWS tuition for 14 to 16 year olds
Cloud tuition here means your child, from 14, builds and runs a small application on Amazon Web Services, inside a sandbox we own and pay for, with a strict cost limit.
Live online sessions run by engineers who work at AWS.
What it is, in plain words
The cloud is renting computing instead of owning it. Instead of buying a server that sits idle most of the day, you rent storage and small pieces of code that run only when asked, and you pay for what you use. Amazon Web Services is the largest of the companies that rent it, and it is where the two of us work.
For a 14 year old the cloud is where their project stops living on one laptop and starts living on the internet, with an address anyone can visit, in a way that could scale if it had to.
Why a 10 to 16 year old should learn it now
Most software a teenager will ever use or build runs in the cloud. Knowing what a bucket of files and a function that runs on demand are, and what they cost, is the difference between a hobby project and something a working engineer would recognise.
From 14, your child deploys to Amazon Web Services in a sandbox we own and pay for, ships code the way engineering teams do, and builds an AI tool that answers questions from their own notes.
What your child builds at each level
In the module we call Cloud on AWS, your child builds a small app from cloud storage, a function that answers requests, a front door for those requests and a database, all running in the club sandbox. They read the logs, set permissions so each part can do only its job, and present a cost review to the group at the end.
In Ship like a team they put their code in a shared repository and have a change reviewed by a peer, then watch it get tested and published automatically. In Build an AI product end to end their chatbot goes live at their club address, published automatically on every change, with rate limits and a spending cap.
The sandbox is one club account per group, in one region, with a permission set that allows only the services the module uses, a £10 budget alert with a hard stop, and a nightly clean-up so nothing outlives the module. There are no per-child accounts and no cards.
Who teaches it
Two of us. Ismail is an applied AI and machine learning engineer at AWS. Sami is a platform engineer at AWS. We wrote the curriculum and we teach every session. If we bring in other tutors as the programme grows, they will be engineers we have worked with, and we'll tell you before your child's group changes.
Accounts, supervision and safety
Under 13, nothing is in your child's name: they work in the browser on platforms we manage, and we publish their work to their club address. From 13, they create a GitHub account in a session with you present; it is the portfolio they keep. Everything else (the Linux server, the AI tools, the AWS sandbox, the publishing) is ours: we own the accounts and pay the bills. Your child never sees a password or a key for any of it.
Every tutor holds an enhanced DBS check. Sessions are recorded and recordings are deleted after 90 days. Tutors never message a child directly. We have a designated safeguarding lead.
Levels and prices
From 14, your child deploys to Amazon Web Services in a sandbox we own and pay for, ships code the way engineering teams do, and builds an AI tool that answers questions from their own notes.
A GitHub portfolio from age 13.
- Level 01 · Ages 10–12
Foundations
No experience needed
£40a session£320 a month · 8 sessions
Their first website, game and chatbot, all live on the internet
- Level 02 · Ages 12–14
Intermediate
Has done some coding
£45a session£360 a month · 8 sessions
Real Python, a proper code editor, and a Linux server we host for them
- Level 03 · Ages 14–16
Advanced
Has built things before
£55a session£440 a month · 8 sessions
Amazon Web Services, shipping code the way teams do, and an AI product built end to end
- Live 90-minute sessions in a group of 6 to 8
- A deployed project at the end of every module
- A Parent Showcase where they demo it to you
- An email every Saturday with what they built
- A certificate at the end of each level
Sessions are 90 minutes in a group of 6 to 8. £40 to £55 a session is £26.67 to £36.67 an hour. Billed monthly, cancel anytime, first session free.