You have these real-world, multi-cloud sandbox environments, no risk of cost overruns, and you can go in and play and innovate.” And that’s where the cloud playgrounds really come into play. And then you want to use all of those skills to innovate. “You want to be able to then create a learning path or a learning journey that’s going to help you progress and fill those gaps. “Whether you‘re an individual student or whether you’re a business, you want to assess where your gaps are in your skills,” Bullard said. Those taking any of the combined company’s approximately 300 online courses-which include the major cloud certification courses-now will have access to 1,500 hands-on labs conducted in real-world cloud environments, and users taking AWS, Microsoft Azure and GCP courses have access to the cloud playgrounds and sandboxes. That‘s a real differentiator for this new combined platform.” “What we brought together was this very engaging approach that made everything super consumable and very simple-whether you were a beginner or an advanced student-from the ACG approach, with this very deep technical, hands-on learning approach from Linux Academy. “The two products did different things really, really well, and what we heard from students and from businesses was that they often would use both platforms for each of those different strengths,” Bullard said. The new platform integrates A Cloud Guru’s method of teaching focused on cloud providers Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with Linux Academy’s hands-on learning approach that includes embedded labs, “cloud playgrounds” and cloud sandboxes, and its wider breadth of courses on technologies including Linux, Kubernetes, containers and security. The new offering combines the best of both technology e-learning companies, according to Katie Bullard, president of Austin, Texas-based A Cloud Guru (ACG).
A Cloud Guru launched its new cloud training platform Thursday with an online upskilling and certification course catalog that’s 300 percent larger thanks to its December acquisition of Linux Academy.