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The skills-first alternative to a 4-year CS degree

From Zero to a Cloud Career
in 6 months — without a CS degree.

3 career paths. 73+ hands-on lessons. A capstone you can put on your resume — real AWS labs, AI-graded assignments, mock interviews — and an AI mentor that actually knows the lesson you're on. Built for career switchers, IT pros leveling up, and CS students who want real enterprise experience before graduation.

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3 Paths
73+ Lessons
200+ Quiz Qs
Onyx AI

What's actually in the platform.

Numbers you can verify by browsing the curriculum. We launched recently — instead of made-up placement rates, here's exactly what you get from day one.

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Career Paths

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Interactive Lessons

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200+

Quiz + Exam Questions

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Portfolio Capstones

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AI Mentor (Onyx)

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Be a founding student

3 career paths · 1 platform

Pick your path. Get hired.

CloudPath isn't one curriculum. It's 3 — each its own track with curriculum, capstone, AI-graded assignments, and career services. Pick one. Or take several in parallel.

Compare all paths in detail

Salary ranges are point-in-time estimates (2026) and can drift — sourced from BLS, Levels.fyi, and Glassdoor. Cited per path on the detail page.

Not Your Average Bootcamp

We don't just teach you tools. We teach you how to work as a professional engineer on a real team.

Live Demo

24/7 Ask Onyx AI Mentor

Answers questions instantly, reviews your code, generates personalized quizzes, and adapts to your learning pace. Try it live below — no signup needed.

Real Enterprise Workflows

Jira sprints, PR reviews, blue/green deployments, change requests, incident response — the daily reality of a cloud engineer.

Team Collaboration

Work with real teammates on real sprints. Learn when to Slack, when to email, how to run standups, and how to unblock yourself.

Multi-Lane Deployments

Dev, test, staging, prod — manage code across environments with Terraform, GitHub Actions, and ECS Fargate. Just like production.

DevSecOps Built In

Security scanning, secret management, IAM policies, compliance checks. Companies want engineers who think about security from day one.

AWS-Verified Assignments

Connect your AWS account once and CloudPath grades hands-on assignments by querying the AWS APIs directly — read-only, fully auditable. No more screenshots or fabricated CLI output. The work is real because the resources are real.

Job Placement Engine

AI matches you to jobs, optimizes your resume per listing, generates cover letters, and preps you for each specific interview.

Gamified Learning

XP points, streaks, achievements, leaderboards, boss battles. Learning cloud should feel like leveling up, not reading textbooks.

Learn on Your Schedule

Self-paced lessons, AI-graded assignments, hands-on labs you do in your own AWS account. The path fits your life, not the other way around.

Your 24/7 Mentor

Meet Ask Onyx

Stop waiting for office hours. Your AI mentor has years of real cloud engineering experience and answers any question, reviews your code instantly, and teaches to your pace.

Ask Anything, Anytime

Questions at 3am? Onyx is always available. No queue, no waiting, no 'office hours'.

Real-World Expertise

Onyx has shipped infrastructure at scale. Gets how production works. Your answers aren't from Wikipedia.

Code Reviews in Seconds

Paste your Terraform, Python, or CloudFormation. Get security issues, performance tips, best practices instantly.

AI Adapts to You

Explains concepts at your level. Beginner? Explains VPCs with analogies. Advanced? Deep dives into architecture trade-offs.

Learn Through Conversation

It's not a chatbot reading docs to you. It's a mentor asking follow-up questions and teaching like a real person.

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5 steps from signup to offer letter.

Whatever path you pick from any of our 3 tracks, the journey is the same. Different content, proven structure.

  1. Step 1: Take the 5-min skill assessment

    Day one · ~5 minutes

    Tell us your goal (first job? leveling up? switching tracks?), your background, and your weekly study budget. Onyx matches you to one of 3 paths and drops you at the exact phase that fits — no sitting through stuff you already know.

    • 3 career paths
    • Personalized starting point
    • Free, no credit card
  2. Step 2: Build the muscle, lesson by lesson

    Weeks 1-12 · self-paced

    Bite-sized interactive lessons (15-30 min each). AI-graded assignments give you instant code-level feedback. 200+ practice questions and phase exams keep you certification-ready. Onyx is on call 24/7 when you're stuck.

    • 73+ interactive lessons
    • AI-graded code feedback
    • 200+ quiz + exam questions
  3. Step 3: Ship a portfolio capstone

    2-3 weeks · own AWS account

    Each path ends with a flagship capstone you build end-to-end — Tekstar Bookstore on EKS, an ADF→Synapse→Power BI pipeline, a SharePoint M365 intranet rollout. Free-tier-safe, cost-aware, with a portfolio README hiring managers can click through.

    • Real cloud account
    • Free-tier safe
    • Verifiable deliverables
  4. Step 4: Train in the enterprise simulation

    12 weeks · sprints + on-call

    What bootcamps skip: sprint planning in Jira, PR reviews, change requests, incident response, cross-team collaboration, on-call drills. By the time you interview, 'tell me about your last sprint' isn't a stumper — it's your highlight reel.

    • Jira + Confluence
    • Incident response
    • Multi-lane deployments

    This is what separates you from every other candidate

  5. Step 5: Land the offer

    Weeks 13+ · interview ready

    AI mock interviews tuned to your path (technical + behavioral + system design). Resume tuned per job posting. STAR-format story coaching. Salary-negotiation roleplay. Path-specific certificate. You walk into interviews already having done the job.

    • AI mock interviews
    • Resume per job posting
    • Salary negotiation roleplay

A month here costs less than a single college textbook. Pick your tier.

Every plan starts with a 7-day free trial. No credit card. Cancel anytime — you keep every project, lesson note, and certificate you earn.

Foundations

Start from zero. Build the base.

$49/month
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  • Phase 1 + Phase 2 lessons only (foundations + architect on the AWS path)
  • All 200+ practice questions and phase exams
  • Ask Onyx — 24/7 lesson-aware AI mentor
  • Free-tier-safe AWS labs
  • Progress dashboard + streaks
  • Does NOT include: the other career paths, DevOps / Terraform / EKS deep dives, capstone projects, the enterprise simulation, or interview prep — those start at Professional
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Professional

All 3 paths. The full curriculum.

$149/month
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  • Everything in Foundations
  • All 3 career paths — switch anytime
  • DevOps + Terraform + EKS deep dives
  • Capstone projects in your own AWS account
  • AI code review on every assignment
  • Cert prep: Cloud Practitioner, SAA, DP-203, PL-300

Enterprise Experience

Train like you already have the job.

$349/month
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  • Everything in Professional
  • 12-week Enterprise simulation (sprints, standups, on-call)
  • Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow sim
  • Multi-lane AWS deployments (dev/test/staging/prod)
  • Incident response + change management drills
  • Path-specific certificate of completion
  • Resume + LinkedIn review with AI feedback

Career Launch

Maximum interview firepower.

$499/month
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  • Everything in Enterprise Experience
  • AI mock interviews — technical, behavioral, system design
  • Resume tuned per job posting
  • Salary-negotiation roleplay
  • Curated cloud job board + application assistant
  • Priority support from the team

What you'd pay elsewhere

$40K+
2-year CS degree (in-state)
≈ $1,667/month over 24 months
$15-20K
Typical cloud bootcamp
≈ $2,500-3,300/month over 6 months
$49-499/mo
CloudPath — cancel anytime
No contract, no fees

7-day free trial on every plan. No credit card to start. Cancel anytime — no contracts, no fees, no guilt trip. Full refund within 14 days of your first paid charge — see the refund policy.

Need a custom plan or team pricing? Let's talk

Pricing FAQ

What happens after the 7-day trial?

If you didn't add a card during signup, your subscription pauses — no surprise charge. You can add a card from /billing anytime to resume. If you added one, it bills automatically and you can still cancel anytime.

Will I get charged if I forget to cancel?

If you don't cancel before the trial ends and you added a card, yes — but you have 14 days from that first charge to request a full refund, no questions asked.

Can I switch plans later?

Yes — upgrade or downgrade from /billing any time. Stripe handles the proration in-place; you won't end up with two overlapping subscriptions.

Do I lose my work if I cancel?

No. You keep access until the end of the current billing period and we never delete the projects, notes, and certificates you already earned — they stay attached to your account if you ever come back.

Built for the journey you're on.

The Career Switcher

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Representative Profile

Career switcher · Boston

If you've been stuck on a non-tech track, the EKS capstone is what flips the conversation in interviews. You stop saying 'I'm learning AWS' and start saying 'here's the cluster I deployed, here's the cost report, here's how I'd scale it.' That's the difference between a callback and a no.
Help-desk / non-techJunior Cloud Engineer

These are composite stories representing learner archetypes and common career outcomes. Individual results vary based on prior experience, effort, and market conditions. No specific earnings are guaranteed.

Frequently Asked Questions

Still have questions?

Reach out to our team or try Ask Onyx — our AI mentor can answer anything about the platform, cloud engineering, or your career path.

Stop watching tutorials. Start shipping.

7 days free. No credit card. Cancel anytime. By Friday, you'll have your first AWS resource deployed and a portfolio plan in hand.

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