3 Best Online Courses for Cloud Computing  [Foundation Courses]

1. AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

KEY POINTS

• Duration: 20 Hours
• Number of Students enrolled for the Course: 382,088
• Money Back Guarantee: Yes, within 30 days of purchase

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• Broad overview of the AWS platform
• You will explore Route53, EC2, S3, Cloud Front, Auto Scaling, Load Balancing, RDS, Red Shift, Dynamo DB, EMR, VPC etc.
• Design Highly Resilient and Scalable Websites on AWS
• Pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Exam and Become a Cloud Guru

KEY FEATURES

• Quiz Questions and Practice Exam
• 16 downloadable resources

2. AWS Fundamentals: Going Cloud-Native

KEY POINTS

• Duration: 7 Hours
• Number of Students enrolled for the Course: 4065
• Money Back Guarantee: Yes, within 14 days of purchase
• Financial Aid: Yes

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• Learn AWS fundamental concepts such as Regions, Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), Availability Zones, etc.
• Various types of AWS Services (compute, storage, database, and security services, etc.) and how to use them?
• How to make an application distributed, durable and highly available

KEY FEATURES

• After completing each module, you will get Article readings and Quizzes

3. Microsoft Azure – Beginner’s Guide

KEY POINTS

• Duration: 7 Hours
• Number of Students enrolled for the Course: 9,222
• Money Back Guarantee: Yes, within 30 days of purchase

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• Setup your Virtual Machines
• Work with Azure Storage and database options: BLOB, SQL Server, SQL Databases and CosmosDB
• Basic Understanding of Azure services such as Azure Functions, Azure Web apps, Azure Scale Sets, Azure Logic Apps etc.
• Basic concepts of Networking
• How to use various Azure services effectively

KEY FEATURES

• 5 Articles and 9 downloadable resources

If you have decided to go with “Microsoft Azure – Beginner’s Guide” online course, I would highly recommend you to take this course also. “The complete walkthrough of Azure Virtual Machines”
You will get a better result. Don’t worry! You will get a discount if you purchase these two online courses together.

4. Cloud Computing MicroMasters Program by University of Maryland

Do you want to become a Master in Cloud Computing by getting a Master’s Degree? This is the course you should look for. It is designed to advance your career and provide a deep understanding of the cloud computing domain. Less expensive Master’s Degree.

This course is recognized by industry leaders

KEY POINTS

• Duration: 32 Weeks/ 8 to 10 hours per week
• Bundle of 4 Courses
• Money Back Guarantee: Yes, within 14 days of purchase

PREREQUISITES

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
• Basic understanding of computer networking

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• Cloud computing foundations and models
• Various types of cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, vSphere, and OpenStack, and how to leverage them in business to increase productivity and effectiveness
• Public, private and hybrid clouds
• Methods for managing a cloud computing adoption/migration project
• How to design a cloud infrastructure or service
• Deployment and configuration of cloud computing systems and how to follow industry standards and best practices.
• SaaS, PaaS and IaaS and other service platforms
• Insuring cloud security and mitigating risk

KEY FEATURES

• Case studies and plenty of useful documents
• You will gain hands-on experience in implementing, configuring and managing various cloud technologies.