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Want to study Cloud Computing, don't know where to start from?

I want to study Cloud Computing and develop it as a career afterwards, but the main obstacle I come across is from where I should start, I've searched on google and quora but most of the answers are related to data science or AWS. It's very confusing as I cannot understand what I want to do in this field.
I need some serious guidance, advice, learning path or a detailed explanation of this field.
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Jacob’s Answer

Cloud covers so many bases that you might want to narrow your focus a bit. I would recommend that you take advantage of the free tier from AWS. You can test out and work with most of the features. This ought to help you decide where to focus your time and effort.

For me, I often find it difficult to get a handle on a new bit of tech if I don't actually use it for something, even if that something is a simple as a hello world app.

Thank you comment icon This is great advice. John Lockney
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Chris’s Answer

Work out what you want to do in the cloud market first. There is so much choice - engineering, sales, marketing, solution architecture, product development, finance, etc... Whatever you decide it's good to get an appreciation of how the solutions work and what benefits they can bring to their end users.

The primary cloud providers (AWS, Azure and Google) are all fighting for market share - and believe me, there is a big market to go after! They have rightly worked out that they need to invest in training and enablement to make sure that the next wave of people who will use/build on/design/etc... cloud solutions, favour their solutions over others. As such, they have invested heavily in providing free collateral/information online, which you can access. This builds up from high level/starter through to very advanced detail. You can also put this knowledge to the test via free access to the platforms that they offer.
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Devin’s Answer

Hi Archit,

As with everyone else here, I wish you the best of luck in your education and journey. Indeed, cloud computing seems to be growing ever more popular. As a Support Manager, I needed to prepare myself and my team of support engineers for dealing with cloud computing and cloud environment as well.

Our most helpful tool that we used was Linux Academy - there is a wide variety of courses and lessons available for people to take for multiple clouds platforms (not just AWS!).

The next step my team and I took was to work on our various cloud environment certifications, such as AWS Cloud certifications or Azure Cloud Certifications. Even without paying for the certification itself, the courses and tests are helpful in expanding your skill set and education.

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Silpa’s Answer

Hi Archit,

Imagine you have 1000 PC/Laptop/Servers in an office containing 1000s of pictures, videos etc, that you need to access on a daily basis (like Google Photos for example). Imagine hosting 1000 such hardware infrastructure. Not only will it be expensive, but also difficult to manage. And to access it you have to go to this office everyday --- not so feasible.

Now imaging you have 1 box (hypervisor) that can host 1000 such virtual servers (such as VMs) hosted on the internet, that you can access from your home/mobile phone anywhere anytime. That is cloud computing. Everything is in the cloud.

As for where to get started, I see others have provided great links. Here's another one: Even if you don't want to take the exam, the resources provided here are good https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/training-events/training-certifications/certifications/associate/ccna-cloud.html.

Goodluck to you.

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Gouthamraj’s Answer

You may want to start with a free edX introductory online course on cloud computing.

https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-cloud-infrastructure-technologies

Gouthamraj recommends the following next steps:

Also, do not forget to learn linux basics, as you'd have to know linux if you want to learn advanced cloud technologies. https://www.netacad.com/courses/os-it/ndg-linux-essentials
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Shamit’s Answer

Cloud provides a way to host your application / website / services without having to buy your own hardware and networking. This is a good career path for Application developers as well as IT Infrastructure engineers.

Next Step :

You can take a two-pronged approach to know more about cloud.

  1. Structured learning : These courses on Udemy provide a good overview (Coursera also has similar courses). https://www.udemy.com/cloud-computing-basics-essential-concepts-you-must-know/ and https://www.udemy.com/getting-started-with-cloud-computing-level-1/
  2. Hands-on learning : AWS , Azure and Google Cloud provide free account that you can use for running your own programs.



Shamit recommends the following next steps:

Online course on introduction to cloud computing
Hands on lab with free account
Thank you comment icon Thank you very much. Archit
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Zahur’s Answer

Microsoft, Google and Amazon all publish a lot of articles, white papers, and exams on cloud computing. You may want to consider starting there and navigating towards what is most interesting to you in Cloud Computing. For example, Amazon's Cloud Practitioner certification process can expose you to basic Cloud Computing concepts that may allow you to decide what is most interesting to you.

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Adam’s Answer

Cloud computing revolutionized the world of technology, and will continue to play a central role in the creation of new products and businesses for the foreseeable future. It's a big topic, so I would first recommend that you start determining what exactly you want to do within the world of cloud computing.

For example, do you want to build applications that run "in the cloud?" Do you want to manage the cloud-based parts of a company's information technology (IT) infrastructure? Do you want to work on the business side of a cloud-based software company (e.g. marketing, sales, customer support, etc.)?

One thing you can do to determine what interests you the most is to try to schedule informational interviews with professionals in the field. There's no replacement for that kind of experience. An informational interview is typically about 30 minutes. You can reach out to a professional whose job you're interested in, and ask them to tell you about their career path and the choices they made along the way.

The basics of a good informational interview are:

  1. Research the individual in advance so that you can ask them good questions.
  2. Come to the meeting prepared with a list of questions (you may even want to send the questions to your contact in advance).
  3. Follow up with a thank-you note after the meeting.
Thank you comment icon Can you please explain the languages or technologies that are being used in developing a cloud based app and in managing the cloud-based parts of a company's information technology (IT) infrastructure as I it very difficult to get information interviews in my region. Also can you please explain under which section does virtualisation comes or creating or management of server comes. Also thank you for replying it really helped. Archit
Thank you comment icon https://www.guru99.com/cloud-computing-for-beginners.html just look into it it might help .. Chandan Sinha
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Chetan’s Answer

You can take courses at https://acloudguru.com/ , they often have deals for courses for $10 of $150 value.
Go with Associate course and can take 2-4 weeks of study to pass it
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Gururaj’s Answer

Hi Archit

Cloud computing technology enables computing components such as Hardware, Software and Infrastructure as fully virtualized, scalable to deliver the services "as a service". You can think of these are set of computers, networking, storage that are virtualized to provide infrastructure, platform and software as a service to end users.
Cloud computing includes
Virtualization
Service oriented Architecture
Grid/Utility computing

You can go thru some online materials @ educba
You can also get some hands-on with udemy/campk12

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Wilson’s Answer

The SA Associate exam is pretty intense and intended for software developers. If you're confused then I suggest you take the AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification Training classes even if you don't plan on taking the certification exam. It's more of an overview. There are similar training classes for Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. Some classes are on aCloudGuru (where you're currently looking) and some are on their individual websites. Whichever one you decide on, these training classes will help you. They will give you more information so you can choose a clearer path to take in your career. Good luck!
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S’s Answer

Hi There, Cloud is definitely a cool part of IT to upskill in.

AWS makes it easy to get started with their free online training. The best URL is this one, https://aws.amazon.com/training/ which will take you to the main page. The sub-URL's change around a bit, but from this page (currently) you can scroll down a bit and you'll see "Free Digital Training". From there you can explore online learning with a range of focus areas.

I've used them myself and found them very helpful to get started!

S recommends the following next steps:

https://aws.amazon.com/training/
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karthik’s Answer

cloud computing as it is considered as the innovation of this current technology and these technologies have a great potential to bring numerous perks and good things to a business. With the use of cloud services increasingly in almost every industry, there are chances for more opportunities and huge salaries in this domain.
in cloud computing, you've lots of options to acquire cloud knowledge. Since you're a beginner, I recommend first referring to some YouTube videos which explain some basic concepts of cloud computing, cloud services, and its providers, etc.
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Imran’s Answer

Prerequisites to learning cloud computing
Hardware infrastructure.
Software infrastructure.
Data center facilities.
Virtualization technologies.
Software engineering concepts.

The 8 Best Places to Learn Cloud Computing
Amazon Web Services. Let's first look at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's popular cloud offering. ...
Udemy. Udemy is a leading provider of online courses on various topics. ...
Coursera. This is a leading online education platform. ...
Edx.org. ...
LinkedIn Learning with Lynda.com content. ...
Cloud Academy. ...
Linux Academy. ...
A Cloud Guru.
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Brinda’s Answer

Hi. I think the best way is to start with Cloud Computing Tutorial for Beginners . There are multiple sites. I have shared one below, which I found helpful :

https://www.guru99.com/cloud-computing-for-beginners.html

You can always reach out on such forums for any concepts in it which you were not clear about.

All the best !

Regards.
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Arpita A’s Answer

Hi Archit,

Cloud Computing is a way of abstracting the physical hardware from the user and process the data on distributes systems/servers. These servers would are highly capable (in terms of memory, CPU cores) and are also robust in nature. You will have to run through few links or register yourself to few courses like Udemy to get more and detailed insight of the technology.

Also, you can do some certifications like AWS, Azure.

All the best!

Regards.
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