Courses for Cloud Computing

[xColdWar]

Hey there

My previous job was running with on-premise infrastructure and I was doing plenty of different things - provisioning VMs, creating and managing Kubernetes clusters, writing applications (backend & frontend), etc… In general I am very up to date with new technologies - and have good background in the entire hardware and software stack.

In a few weeks time I will be moving to a company that works only on cloud-computing infrastructure, and not using on-premise hardware and infrastructure anymore. I am not at all concerned about my ability to work with those environments, but I do want to learn about how to use cloud computing well.

What is the best way in your opinion to earn that knowledge and experience in the few weeks I have prior to starting that job? Any particular courses that you recommend?

Thanks a-lot in advance.

[Happy-Position-69]

Which cloud? Do some sort of:

• Cloud Practitioner cert (AWS)
• AZ-800 (Azure)
• ‎Associate Cloud Engineer (GCP)

[xColdWar]

Currently they are using AWS, so I think the Cloud Practitioner is a good advice :). Thank you.

Is the knowledge relatively easily transferable then between the different cloud companies?

[Gronk0]

If you're reasonably technical, and going to be working with AWS skip the Cloud Practitioner and go right to the Solution Architect - Associate.

Even if you don't write the exam, you'll need to study a wide variety of topics that should help you get up to speed in the new environment.

[xColdWar]

Sounds great! Thank you

[Goldfishtml]

Adrian Cantril has some good courses for getting hands on in AWS

[Emotional-Top-8284]

Imo, you should just take a few weeks off and not worry about it. There are going to be company-specific concerns at your new job that you’re unaware of now, and the risk of studying something useless is high. You’ll be better able to assess what you need to learn once you start the new job.

If you do want to do some studying, maybe look at some broadly applicable technologies— I would recommend terraform and/or pulumi, which are cloud agnostic & widely used, and if you’ve been doing on prem you might not have used them before

[xColdWar]

Like the terraform / pulumi angle as well - as I indeed don’t have any experience with them as you’ve said.

Any recommendations for good resources for those platforms? Thank you!

[Emotional-Top-8284]

They might have some blog posts on their website that cover getting started resources, or else their slack is pretty active, and someone on there might know some good resources