For people trying to break into cloud
The Step-by-Step System for Building Real AWS Experience That Gets You Hired
Turn two hours a week into the hands-on AWS experience companies ask for, no computer science degree or tech job needed. You learn the right things in the right order, build the kind of cloud system real companies run, get expert feedback on your work, and walk into interviews with confidence.
- No AWS experience needed
- Built around a full-time job
- Personal support until you’re interview ready
I’m Henry, and I’ll be teaching you. I went from a finance job to a cloud engineer with no CS degree. My AWS tutorials have over half a million views.
The stack you’ll master
Feedback from real students
“I’ve come away with something I can actually put in front of recruiters rather than another random tutorial.”
Kane L.
Ex-Revolut, sales
“Before the course my confidence was maybe a 3 out of 10. Now it is around an 8.
I can actually think through and build a multi-AZ, 3-tier setup in Terraform myself.”
Mathew S.
AWS-certified, self-taught
Does this sound like you?
You’ve done the courses and the certs, and you still can’t get an interview.
You’ve watched tutorials, and none of the skills have stuck.
Every job asks for previous experience, but you can’t get any.
You don’t know what to learn next, and every roadmap says something different.
I struggled with all of these problems too, until one thing changed all of it.
The one change that took me from a Finance job to AWS Cloud Engineer at one of the biggest banks in the world
I nearly gave up on Cloud...
I spent an entire weekend applying to more than 50 jobs. I didn’t hear anything back.
And I thought I did everything right. I passed the basic certifications. I bought courses and went through all the lectures. I followed along to some tutorials on YouTube and made notes.
So I thought I was making progress but my applications were all getting ignored.
I’d wasted months on things that didn’t matter.
My degree is in Economics and Finance. No computer science, no IT job, nothing on my CV that said I belonged in tech. So when I felt behind, I studied more. I thought this was the best thing to do at the time.
But none of this actually proved I could do the job. When I started looking at interview questions online, I realised that I couldn’t answer any of it!
My courses and certifications taught me the theory. But none of the questions were about that. They were about what I’d built and why I’d built it that way.
So I changed my strategy.
I stopped studying AWS and built one real project instead.
The problem was I didn’t know what to build. I spent months googling project ideas, trying to find a real problem to solve.
It couldn’t be too small. It had to be something a company would actually run. And it needed enough different services in it that I’d learn something and have something to show for it.
I got there in the end, but it took months of research and was exhausting!
I noticed something unexpected happening... The list of things I needed to learn got easier and I felt way less overwhelmed. I’d only start learning a service when the project needed it. And it actually stuck in my brain because I’d used it to build something.
That project got me a job as an AWS Cloud Engineer at one of the biggest banks in the world. My income went up by over 70%.
Then I put what I’d learned on YouTube. Those videos have been watched over half a million times now.
And this is the kind of thing people started saying.
The way you connected each skill to its role in a professional workflow (Terraform for IaC consistency, CI/CD for automation, Kubernetes for deployment, Python for automation, and networking as the foundation) gives the learning path real context, not just another list of “random things". It’s refreshing to hear advice that’s grounded in actual hiring data rather than opinion.
Thanks for demystifying what truly matters and saving people from wasting time on the wrong priorities.
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This is one of the best IT vidoes I've seen. Thank you so much for this, and you were right... I had already been to Udemy searching for a 25 hour course. I've already ordered the book you recommended. Thank you again!
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After speaking with hundreds of my audience members and mentoring people one to one using what I’ve learnt, I’ve noticed the same 3 problems come up over and over.
The hardest part was never learning AWS services. It’s...
- Not knowing what to learn to get a job.
- Not knowing what to build to get a job.
- Not knowing how to present all of this on a resume to get a job.
So I built the solution to this. This is what I wish I had when I first started learning AWS.
I teach you the theory in the order you actually need it. Then you test that knowledge on practical exercises, and by the end you’ve built a project that a company would actually be impressed by.
I review your code at the end, then show you how to put it on your resume and talk about it in an interview.
It’s called The Cloud Portfolio System.
Here’s how it’s different to everything you’ve already tried.
Most AWS courses are built to teach you AWS theory.
This one is built to get you hired.
Here’s how it turns an empty AWS account into a project a company would run, and that project into interviews.
- 01
Learn only what gets you hired (on a roadmap I’ve already mapped out)
You don’t need to know any AWS going in. We start with the AWS fundamentals, then the Terraform fundamentals, then the networking everything else sits on.
Each concept comes as a short video right before you need it, so you’re never learning something you won’t touch for a month.
You stop starting things and never finishing them.
Internet Gateway & Route Tables
- 02
Build the project that gets you interviews (not another generic YouTube tutorial)
Instead of typing what an instructor types, you get handed a ticket.
You work out the solution yourself, then watch how a senior engineer would’ve done it. If you get stuck, there are hints, a full solution video, and a Discord full of people working through the same thing.
It’s harder than following along, and that’s the point. This is how you actually remember what you learn.
You end up with something a company actually runs.
VPC-03 Challenge Brief ● To doConnect the public subnets to the internet
Acceptance criteria
- An internet gateway is created and attached to your VPC
- A route table sends internet-bound traffic through it
- The route table applies to both public subnets
- Changes are committed and pushed to GitHub
VPC-03 solutionresource "aws_route_table" "public" { vpc_id = aws_vpc.main.id route { cidr_block = "0.0.0.0/0" gateway_id = aws_internet_gateway.main.id } } - 03
Get an expert review of your build (before a recruiter sees it)
When the build is done you submit it and I review your code myself. I tell you what I would change and why.
If it is not there yet, we go again. We keep working together, round after round, until it is interview ready.
The imposter feeling goes and you feel confident applying for jobs.
Open vaultpay-infrastructureThe whole build, as one diff
mainreview-base
+ resource "aws_nat_gateway" "main" {+ allocation_id = aws_eip.nat.id+ subnet_id = aws_subnet.public_a.id+ }Henry left inline comments on your code
- 04
Turn it into a job-winning resume
The last part takes the project you just built and turns it into the things that actually get read. A resume built around it, a LinkedIn profile that matches, and answers for the question every one of these interviews asks.
You confidently start landing interviews.
You built
VaultPay, end to end
- A resume built around it
- A LinkedIn recruiters find
- Answers you have rehearsed
You finish with the skills, the theory, and the project that gets you hired.
I scanned the market to see if there were similar options out there. I couldn’t find anything.
Meet VaultPay. The project that makes you worth interviewing.
Everyone builds the same small projects from YouTube tutorials, and hiring managers have seen them all before. This is the kind of system a real company runs, and you’ll have built and deployed every part of it yourself.
By the end you can:
- Learn just enough AWS theory to pass interviews
- Design a network across two availability zones, and say why you made every decision
- Run a database nothing on the public internet can reach
- Put a containerised app behind a load balancer that scales itself
- Write every line of it in Terraform, the way a real team does
- Build a resume that gets you hired
What you’ll learn
What you’ll build
Networking
Multi-AZ VPCs, subnets & routing
Database
Private RDS & Secrets Manager
Compute
EC2, Docker & auto-scaling
CI/CD
GitHub Actions & observability
Serverless
Lambda & event-driven apps
From no experience to a project that gets you interviews.
Most courses hand you a list of AWS services and leave you to work out what matters. Here it’s already in the order you need it, and all of it builds towards one project that will get you hired.
AWS Foundations
Available nowSet up your account, lock it down with IAM, and get your toolchain ready. Secured and ready to build.
Terraform Foundations
Available nowInfrastructure as code from first principles: variables, outputs, and remote state, the way a real team works.
Cloud Networking Bootcamp
Available nowA multi-AZ, three-tier VPC: public and private subnets, routing, internet and NAT gateways. The backbone of VaultPay.
Database Masterclass
Available nowA private PostgreSQL database in isolated subnets, with security groups and credentials handled the right way.
Application Tier Accelerator
Available nowContainerize the app, push to ECR, and run it behind an Application Load Balancer with an auto-scaling fleet. VaultPay goes live.
CI/CD & Observability Essentials
Coming soonShip changes through a GitHub Actions pipeline and see what your system is doing with CloudWatch and flow logs.
Serverless & Event-Driven Essentials
Coming soonExtend VaultPay with event-driven, serverless pieces: Lambda, S3 triggers, and DynamoDB.
The Interview Prep Suite
Most courses stop at the build and leave the job hunt to you. This one turns what you built into a resume, a LinkedIn recruiters actually find, and the interview answers that win the offer.
- Make your GitHub recruiter-ready
- Write your VaultPay project story
- Build your resume around what you built
- Upgrade your LinkedIn
- Nail "tell me about yourself"
- Walk an interviewer through your project
- Drill the technical questions
Henry
Homebrew Henry
I’m not an engineer with 20 years experience.
What I have done is make the exact jump you’re making. A finance job, no computer science degree, no real tech experience to point at.
For the past year I’ve also been sitting down one to one with people who are exactly where you are now.
So this is the system I needed back then. It’s how you get the experience every job asks for, without waiting for someone to hire you first.
What they said after building it
I can build a multi-AZ, 3-tier setup myself.
“I had my AWS certs but was building in the console and getting nowhere. I knew the theory, but I had nothing built to show hiring managers. Learning Terraform and AWS together finally made it click, and I can build a multi-AZ, 3-tier setup myself.”
Mathew S.
AWS-certified, self-taught
It filled in the gaps nothing else did.
“It was the perfect entry point for me. The fundamentals were in place before the cloud-specific services, and every ticket felt like a real one where you research and work out the solution yourself. I went from following along to building it myself, and I’m far more comfortable with Terraform now.”
Eneyi D.
Tax manager
Six weeks, three nights a week around work.
“Every time I sat down for a session, I knew the time would go into building something rather real, rather than just filling my time with videos, which really helped me stay locked into the course. Took me about 6 weeks, doing 3 nights a week around work.”
Kane L.
Ex-Revolut, sales
Get the complete Cloud Portfolio System
Everything you need to go from zero to interview ready, with the best chance of landing a high-paying cloud job.
What’s included
- $500
Lifetime access to every project build
You always know what to learn next, and every step of it puts another piece of a real project on your resume.
- $497
Personal code reviews until it’s interview ready
You’re never stuck on your own, because you get personal support from a professional cloud engineer.
- $197
The “Recruiter-Magnet” Resume & LinkedIn System
Your resume and LinkedIn stand out from everyone else’s, and that’s what gets you the interview.
- $197
Interview cheat sheets and model answers
You walk into the interview confident, because you already know what they’ll ask and how you’ll answer it.
- Included
Every future module and project, included
You buy once, and what you bought keeps growing instead of going out of date.
- Included
The Discord community
You get a network of people making the same career change, all working towards the same first cloud job.
Launch price
Total value $1,391
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$150k
average cloud engineer salary (US)
You pay $295 once. Staying where you are has a cost too.
If this doesn’t work for you, I don’t want your money.
You’re protected two ways.
The no-questions refund
Try it for two weeks. If it’s not for you, email me and I’ll refund you in full.
The “finish it” promise
Finish the build and submit it for your code review. If you’re not happy with it, we’ll keep working together until it’s interview ready.
This isn’t for everyone.
Most courses will take anyone’s money. I’d rather you know before you pay, so here’s who this works for and who it doesn’t.
Build this if…
- You’ve tried studying, certs or not, and you’ve still got nothing real to point to.
- You’d rather work something out yourself than watch someone else type it.
- You work full time and need a structured path, not another 40-hour playlist.
- You want to walk an interviewer through something you actually built and decided.
Skip it if…
- You want to copy-paste along and skip the part where you think.
- You’re after an exam shortcut. This builds the thing a cert can’t prove.
- You’re curious about cloud but you’re not actually trying to change jobs.
Before you start
- You’re comfortable in the command line.
- You understand basic networking (IPs, subnets).
- You know the basic Git commands (add, commit, push).
- You don’t need any existing AWS or Terraform knowledge.
FAQs
Still not sure if it’s right for you? Email hello@homebrewhenry.com and I’ll answer you myself.
I’m not sure I’m technical enough. Can I actually do this?
Yes. It will feel harder than a tutorial, because you’re working things out instead of copying. That’s uncomfortable for the first couple of tickets and then it stops being. Every ticket has hints if you want them, and a full solution video if you’d rather watch it done. Module 0 gets your account and your tools set up before any of that starts.
I don’t come from a tech background. Does that rule me out?
No. Mine was Economics and Finance, and I was in a finance job with nothing on my CV that said I belonged in tech. One of my students was a tax manager. Another came from sales. What holds people back is having nothing built to show for the time they’ve put in, and that part is fixable. There is still a floor though. You need to be comfortable in the command line and know basic Git, so this isn’t a first step into tech from a standing start.
Do I need AWS experience already?
No, and you don’t need Terraform either. You should be comfortable in the command line and know the basic Git commands (add, commit, push). Everything else starts at Module 0.
How much time does it take?
Around two hours a week, in three sessions of 30 to 45 minutes. Everything is unlocked on day one and there’s no cohort to keep up with, so a busy month doesn’t put you behind. It’s built for people doing this around a full-time job.
What if I don’t want a FinTech job?
VaultPay is the project you build here, and yes, it’s a FinTech app. But nobody hires you for the app. They hire you for the network you designed, the private database, the load balancer that scales itself, and the Terraform that builds all of it. That same setup is running right now at a bank, a hospital and an online retailer. What you get asked in the interview is why you made those decisions, and that answer works wherever you apply. More projects are coming too, and they’re included.
I already have my certs. Isn’t that enough?
Certs get you past the first filter, and that’s worth having. The trouble starts in the interview, where you get asked what you’ve built and why you built it that way. Students who had certifications in the initial cohort I ran still had nothing they could walk an interviewer through. This sits on top of the certs you’ve already got.
Isn’t one big project worse than several smaller ones?
Five small projects give you five shallow answers. One system you built end to end gives you an hour of things to talk about, and an interviewer will pick one thing and keep asking why. That’s why you build one platform here instead of a folder of demos.
Will this actually help me in interviews, not just teach me skills?
That’s what the last part of the course is for. The interview prep is built around the project you’ve just finished, so the answers you practise are about your own work rather than a made-up example. You also get my review of your code, which means someone has questioned your decisions before an interviewer does.
Does running the labs cost money on AWS?
A little. Most of what you build sits inside the AWS free tier, and for the parts that don’t, I show you how to tear things down when you’ve finished for the night. You’re looking at a few dollars at most while you work through it.
What if it’s not for me?
Try it for two weeks. If it isn’t what you wanted, email me inside 14 days and I’ll refund you in full, no questions. And if you finish the build and submit it for review but you’re still not happy with it, we’ll keep going until it’s interview ready.
Studying got you this far.
Experience gets you hired.
Keep applying with the same resume as everyone else. Or start learning the skills and building the projects that actually get you hired.
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