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What certifications should I get?
As we mentioned in a post earlier this month, the old AWS slogan the “Cloud is the new normal” is indeed a reality today. The question we'll be try...
New Course: Introduction to Continuous Integration
The Ideal Course for DevOps Beginners Who Want to Learn about Continuous IntegrationHey folks! You'll be happy to know that Cloud Academy has rece...
Working with Amazon DynamoDB: New Course
A fantastic new course from an exciting new instructorWe proudly announce a new course Working with Amazon DynamoDB from a new instructor, Ryan Pa...
AWS DevOps Training: How and why you should study it
The AWS DevOps training is challenging and rewarding. You should study for the exam even if you don't want the certification - Everyone should unde...
Amazon Web Services: 2 new courses from Andrew Templeton
We are proud to publish 2 new AWS courses that will make a difference in people's careers.As I noted last week, Andrew Templeton is one a select g...
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The Benefits Of Cloud Containers
Before getting into a discussion on the benefits of cloud containers, it may be beneficial for some readers if we explain what cloud containers are, as they have developed into more than the latest “buzzword” and are changing the way in which many businesses deploy resources in the clou...
What are the Benefits of Machine Learning in the Cloud?
A Comparison of Machine Learning Services on AWS, Azure, and Google CloudArtificial intelligence and machine learning are steadily making their way into enterprise applications in areas such as customer support, fraud detection, and business intelligence. There is every reason to beli...
4 Reasons You Need to Include Business Stakeholders in Cloud Training
Digital transformation is changing how organizations in every industry approach their business strategy, serving as the foundation of their technology initiatives. Chief among this includes cloud adoption, which is not just a path to IT savings, but also increasingly where companies are...
Planning for Microsoft Ignite 2018 Sessions: What Not to Miss
Cloud Academy is proud to be a sponsor of the Microsoft Ignite Conference to be held September 24 - 28 in Orlando, Florida. This is Microsoft’s biggest event of the year and is a great way to stay up to date on how to get the most from Microsoft’s products. In this post, I’ll help you p...
Whitepaper: A New Paradigm for Cloud Training
By 2020, nearly two-thirds of all enterprise IT infrastructure and software spending will be on cloud-based offerings, led by the availability of cheaper storage, available processing power, and the emergence of new technologies in artificial intelligence and machine learning.The ne...
How to Use AWS CLI
The AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) is for managing your AWS services from a terminal session on your own client, allowing you to control and configure multiple AWS services.So you’ve been using AWS for awhile and finally feel comfortable clicking your way through all the services....
Disadvantages of Cloud Computing
If you want to deliver digital services of any kind, you’ll need to compute resources including CPU, memory, storage, and network connectivity. Which resources you choose for your delivery, cloud-based or local, is up to you. But you’ll definitely want to do your homework first.Cloud ...
Choosing the Right AWS Certification for You and Your Team
As companies increasingly shift workloads to the public cloud, cloud computing has moved from a nice-to-have to a core competency in the enterprise. This shift requires a new set of skills to design, deploy, and manage applications in the cloud.As the market leader and most mature pro...
Building Ansible Playbooks Step-by-Step
Learn to build Ansible playbooks with our guide, one step at a timeIn our previous posts, we introduced Ansible fundamentals, and dove deeper into Ansible playbooks. Now let's learn to create an Ansible playbook step by step. Working with a playbook, we'll go from deploying a simple H...
Introducing Assessment Cycles
Today, cloud technology platforms and best practices around them move faster than ever, resulting in a paradigm shift for how organizations onboard and train their employees. While assessing employee skills on an annual basis might have sufficed a decade ago, the reality is that organiz...
AWS Security: Bastion Host, NAT instances and VPC Peering
Effective security requires close control over your data and resources. Bastion hosts, NAT instances, and VPC peering can help you secure your AWS infrastructure.Welcome to part four of my AWS Security overview. In part three, we looked at network security at the subnet level. This ti...
Pivotal Cloud Foundry: set up a backup strategy
Pivotal Cloud Foundry deployments can be complicated. Learn how to properly create and restore from backups.Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) is an open source platform based on Cloud Foundry and offered as a collaboration between Pivotal, EMC, and GE. Pivotal Cloud Foundry runs on almost a...