Hands-on cloud, a byte at a time
AWS lab activities your students can actually finish.
Clearbyte helps schools build hands-on AWS labs out of byte-size steps — more steps, each small enough to follow. Students work in a real AWS account, launched from your course, graded automatically.
How a lab comes together
The same four steps for every lab in the catalog.
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Build it from byte-size steps
Break a lab into small, ordered steps instead of one intimidating wall of instructions. More steps, each easier to finish.
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Launch it from your LMS
Students open the lab from your course. LTI 1.3 handles sign-in, so there is no separate account for them to create.
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Students work in real AWS
Every student gets credentials and console access to a live AWS account, not a simulator or a screenshot.
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Grade it, then tear it down
Work is checked against what was actually built, the score returns to your gradebook, and the account is destroyed.
Why byte-size steps
A long lab fails quietly. A student gets stuck on step 3, guesses at step 4, and by step 9 nothing works and nobody knows why. Breaking the same material into smaller steps means a student always knows whether the last thing they did worked — and so do you.
Smaller steps, fewer dead ends
Each step is small enough to check before moving on.
Built for a class period
Sized to fit the time you actually have, not a corporate training calendar.
Real AWS, not a mock
Small steps, but the account and the credentials are the real thing.
From the lab catalog
Pick the ones that fit what you're covering.
Introduction to AWS VPC
The Virtual Private Cloud in small, checkable steps: finish one, confirm it worked, move to the next.
Introduction to Amazon EC2
Elastic Compute Cloud in short steps, so nobody is left guessing which instruction broke.
Introduction to Amazon EFS
The Elastic File System, split into steps small enough to verify one at a time.
See it with your own course
Demo seats are provisioned per request, matched to the lab you're teaching next.
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