Built by
Learners.
For Learners.
A platform born out of a shared frustration. Built by two people who decided that frustration was worth doing something about.
The cloud won't wait.
Neither should your preparation.
— The team behind CloudFordge
It Started With a Mantra.
They had a system. Before every AWS certification, the same four steps, in the same order, every time. Course. Hands-on practice. Dumps. Practice questions. It was not complicated. It was just how serious preparation worked.
Cloud Practitioner. Solutions Architect Associate. AWS AI Practitioner. Same mantra, every time. The method was sound. The problem was always step four.
Finding Practice Questions Was a Part-Time Job.
Practice questions — the final and most critical step before any exam — were scattered everywhere and owned properly by no one. Reddit threads pointed to PDFs that were three versions out of date. YouTube comment sections had links that went nowhere.
Websites that called themselves free showed ten questions and then a payment screen. The ones with real depth wanted 3,000, 5,000 rupees, sometimes more. For question banks that were poorly formatted, inconsistently explained, and in some cases just wrong.
They passed their exams. But the experience left something behind. A question harder to shake than any practice test.
“Why does this have to be this hard?”
So They Built the Thing They Wished Existed.
If two people who were motivated, technically capable, and knew exactly what to look for were still spending hours hunting for decent practice material, what was happening to everyone else?
The student preparing for their first certification with no one to guide them. The professional switching careers who needed to prove themselves fast. The experienced engineer who just wanted a credential to match the skill. All of them hitting the same wall.
So they built the resource they never had. Free practice questions structured by certification, written to exam standard. Not free with an asterisk, not free for the first fifteen questions. Just free. Because access to good preparation material should never be a financial decision.
What It Is Today.
CloudFordge is not a course platform. It will not teach you what S3 is from scratch. What it will do is make sure that by the time you sit for your exam, you have practiced on questions that match the real thing. And understood why each answer is right, not just that it is.
It is a young platform. They will be the first to say that. But what is here is good, it is honest, and it is entirely free. That was the point when they started. It remains the point now.
Three cloud providers. Five certifications — covering AWS, Azure, and GCP. 411+ questions. Every single one explained. More being added.
What makes us
different.
Free. Actually free.
No credit card. No trial. No paywalls hiding the good stuff. Quality preparation should never be gated by what you can afford.
Questions that reflect the real exam.
Scenario-based. Written to match the actual difficulty and topic weight. No filler questions added just to inflate the count.
Explanations that teach, not just confirm.
Every answer includes a detailed explanation. Because memorising answers does not pass exams. Understanding does.
Progress you can actually see.
Track correct, incorrect, and skipped across every certification. Know your gaps. Study smarter, not longer.
Kartik Patel
Co-Founder & Platform Engineer
AWS certified across multiple tracks. Kartik has worked hands-on across cloud infrastructure, solutions architecture, and enterprise IT the kind of engineer who doesn't just pass certifications, but uses them daily.
He built CloudFordge because the prep process was broken and he knew exactly how to fix it.
Vivek Pillai
Co-Founder & Platform Engineering
Cloud engineer and builder with experience spanning IT operations, agentic systems, and infrastructure automation. Vivek runs the platform from how questions are structured to how the whole thing is built and scaled.
His rule for every question on CloudFordge: if it doesn't teach something, it doesn't belong
Certifications
we cover.
Amazon Web Services
- Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03)
- SysOps Administrator Associate (SOA-C03)
- Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02)
Microsoft Azure
- Azure Administrator (AZ-104)
Google Cloud Platform
- Associate Cloud Engineer (ACE)
More certifications are in progress. Have one you'd like to see added? Tell us on the contact page — we read every message.
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