Re­cent­ly, we trai­nees and stu­dents were gi­ven ac­cess to “A Cloud Guru”. This is an in­ter­ac­ti­ve lear­ning plat­form that spe­cia­li­zes in cloud com­pu­ting and, in ad­di­ti­on to con­ven­tio­nal lear­ning vi­de­os, also of­fers so-cal­led hands-on labs whe­re you don’t just sit still and lis­ten, but can build ar­chi­tec­tures and try out ser­vices in­de­pendent­ly with demo ac­counts in the en­vi­ron­ment of the re­le­vant cloud pro­vi­ders, such as AWS. This is the de­cisi­ve ad­van­ta­ge of “A Cloud Guru”, as it fo­cu­ses on prac­ti­cal im­ple­men­ta­ti­on, whe­re you can also gain your own ex­pe­ri­ence with it and don’t just have to learn by watching.

Cloud com­pu­ting has a gre­at fu­ture ahead of it and is al­re­a­dy in use in many places due to its ver­sa­ti­le ad­van­ta­ges. Ac­cor­din­gly, the li­cen­ces are just right for lear­ning how to use the plat­forms for the first time and for tar­ge­ted fur­ther training.

Per­so­nal­ly, it hel­ped me to get a good first in­sight into AWS, so that I can now also use the first ser­vices of over 200 on my own. I also set up my first Ku­ber­netes clus­ters, alt­hough I still need a bit more practice.