A Cloud Guru AWS Training and Certification (Plus Plan Per User)
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Excellent Training, but comes with some caveats
What do you like best about the product?
I was a customer of Linux Academy, and was part of the migration to A Cloud Guru. The migration itself appears to have gone smooth. My login information remained the same, and things looked a little different it was easy to figure out where things are, and most importantly the Sandbox and Playground area largely remained the same.
As a linux academy customer, I would have easily given this 5-Stars, simply because the content was stellar, and covered pretty much anything/everthing I wanted to learn. And did so well enough to pass exams, and learn the content.
In regards to content, this remains the same before/after the aquisition of Linux Academy. Every course I've take to date has been consitently perfect, complete with labs, sandboxes, and AWS Playground.
As a linux academy customer, I would have easily given this 5-Stars, simply because the content was stellar, and covered pretty much anything/everthing I wanted to learn. And did so well enough to pass exams, and learn the content.
In regards to content, this remains the same before/after the aquisition of Linux Academy. Every course I've take to date has been consitently perfect, complete with labs, sandboxes, and AWS Playground.
What do you dislike about the product?
Here's what keeping things from 5-Stars. The portal framework, and the support structure. I've been having an issue where I authenticate fine. And every course I had in my to-do queue works perfectly, as do the sandboxes and playgrounds. However, since the migration I've been experiencing a problem where I authenticate fine, can watch any video in my queue, however often times I need to branch out and watch a few videos from other course. I.e. If I learn about Docker in Python, I may want to break out and watch 2-3 videos on dockers to fully understand them. However, I'm able to search and find the videos I want to watch but when I click on them they show for a brief second, then I get punted to a login screen to verify my account. Which says it sent an email (Which never arrives), and when I click to resend the page errors out. Bringing me to my number one dislike; The support structure;
Their support only operates 9AM-6PM ET Monday through Friday. They're closed in the evenings and weekends. In addition to that, they do not hav ea call in support. Your support interface is filling out a web form, then submitting. Then from there it's all e-mails. After 4 tickets, my experience has been there's a averag of 2-3 day response times. So if you had a week's worth of training planned and things blow up say Wednesday, you're guranteed to not get a resolution until the following week. And if you're planning to take training Friday morning, and things break you're unable to get anyone until the following week.
Their support only operates 9AM-6PM ET Monday through Friday. They're closed in the evenings and weekends. In addition to that, they do not hav ea call in support. Your support interface is filling out a web form, then submitting. Then from there it's all e-mails. After 4 tickets, my experience has been there's a averag of 2-3 day response times. So if you had a week's worth of training planned and things blow up say Wednesday, you're guranteed to not get a resolution until the following week. And if you're planning to take training Friday morning, and things break you're unable to get anyone until the following week.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Various projects from AWS solutions, automation, to implementation of uCMDB and asset management. Many benefits have been realized through training to quickly come up to speed on languages such as javaScript and Python, as well as AWS certifications.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If available to you via your company and SSO, I would highly recommend utilizing this service. As mentioned, the training is thorough, and well executed. It covers the content you need to obtain certifications, and deeply learn the content. In addition, you have full access to your own sandbox, which includes AWS, GCS, and Azure. Then sandboxes allow you to fire up multiple VMs which you have admin rights over to test everything you're learning.
If an individual forking out the money yourself like I am, pay close attention to their support hours. And rather or not being down for a week while problems are resolved are import to you or not.
If an individual forking out the money yourself like I am, pay close attention to their support hours. And rather or not being down for a week while problems are resolved are import to you or not.
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A Cloud Guru for AWS Learning
What do you like best about the product?
Ryan videos are great, it´s a great preparation for achieving certifications. I goy the Solutions Architect and the Cloud practitioner certifications in about 4 months with practice and a cloud gurus videos.
What do you dislike about the product?
the only thing I do not like is the search feature because sometimes you want to filter for entire courses, but you still get individual lessons in the results.
That is something minor, overall I love a cloudguru.
That is something minor, overall I love a cloudguru.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Getting AWS certified, getting started with cloud technologies.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
use it for AWS, azure and Ansible
Longtime user
What do you like best about the product?
Learning when I am free to do it. Can just watch a single lesson in my free time, at lunch or even commuting (pre-COVID).
What do you dislike about the product?
I was going to say the iPad application but it has really improved over the last year.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Keeping current in Cloud technologies.
Advanced Networking
What do you like best about the product?
Clearly laid out syllabus, easy to follow labs and excellent theory based lectures.
What do you dislike about the product?
I still think their practice questions and tests are not indicative of the real AWS exams.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I work for an AWS/Azure/Google network partner so I regularly use them to understand the different hyper-scaler nuances. I taught myself Terraform using the ACloudGuru videos.
Passed AWS CCSA Exam with ACG help
What do you like best about the product?
Good lectures, Lab Demo's, Live Lab session. Quizzes for each section to make sure you have the topic down before moving on, and good Practice Exam which seemed ot have a pool of questions, as not the exact same (I took 4 times before my Exam)
What do you dislike about the product?
Not much,. I suppose it would be good to let us know if actual and demo labs are taking us out of free tier if we follow along (they do at times). Some updates needed, but I understand they are about to apply a bunch of updates soon.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I worked with AWS migrating VZ into cloud before taking a bit of a "sabbatical". ACG helped by stay up to speed while not actively working with AWS and also passed the exam. Working on Sys Ops.
A Cloud Guru is an excellent resource to learn and master the cloud.
What do you like best about the product?
There is a comprehensive coverage of AWS, GCP, Azure and many detailed courses.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would like to see some other courses related to Systems Administration and maybe more Certification Courses in HashiCorp.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Getting training necessary for my DevOps Role.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try the AWS Courses
Best resource for learning cloud from scratch
What do you like best about the product?
Great mix of lectures and hands-on labs that starts with the basics and comprehensively covers everything needed for beginning and associate level certifications.
What do you dislike about the product?
Coverage of advanced topics can be uneven, especially for professional certifications.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I went from knowing close to nothing about cloud technology to obtaining certifications on multiple platforms.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is the best resource I have found for self-paced cloud learning.
A Cloud Guru Platform
What do you like best about the product?
The practice test helped me immensely on preparing for my exam. I dont believe I would have gotten my cert without acloudguru.
What do you dislike about the product?
One thing is to have a sandbox environment to practice our cloud knowledge.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
learning about cloud id daunting and alot of times work experience is one of the only way you can get experts in the field to guide you. The content presented here allowed me to learn from some of the experts in the field.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Anyone who wants to learn about cloud this would be the place to go. With the recent acquisition of Linux Academy, A Cloud Guru contains a vast amount of talent, knowledge, and expertise when it comes to designing, implemented, test, and debugging cloud services.
Great platform for learning devops
What do you like best about the product?
I really like the acquisition of Linux Academy because It brings a lot of linux and config management value what is also an important thing
What do you dislike about the product?
In the trainings there is no animated slides. Sometimes its a bit dry.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Infrastructure design and deployment in AWS
Great Content for Cloud and Linux trainings
What do you like best about the product?
Professional instructors and great labs.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some lectures are very basic ...........
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I got great domain knowledge about AWS and confidence to perform better job.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Nice platform to start a career on cloud.
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