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Goals Are Dreams with Deadlines: Completing Training Plans After the Due Date
You don’t have to give up your training goals when work gets hectic Training Plans are powerful tools for learners and managers alike. With a Tra...
A Second Set of Hands: Access Hands-on Labs Instructions From Your Phone
Now you can follow our hands-on lab instructions even easier. Use your phone as a second screen and avoid switching back and forth between tabs. ...
Feature Announcement: New API for Seamless Reporting
Easy access to clean data is a critical need for any successful business. That’s why we released our new Reports API with nine new endpoints ...
Learn, Grow, Succeed: Introducing Training Plans for Individuals
Increase your Success Rate with Self-assigned Training Plans One of the five criteria for setting a SMART goal is that it has a due date and a sp...
Announcing New Training Plans
Drive your teams’ training initiatives with our new Training Plans. You’ll be able to manage learning across your teams — no matter the size ...
Introducing Our Latest Platform Improvements
Here at Cloud Academy, we're customer- and product-obsessed. It's our mission to understand what our users want and need so we can help to empower ...
You Asked & We Listened: Here’s Our Latest Platform Update
Here at Cloud Academy, we value customer feedback and are always striving to make improvements. Based on your feedback, we made some platform updat...
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The 12 AWS Certifications: Which is Right 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 cloud computing. As the market leader and most ma...
Advantages and Disadvantages of Microservices Architecture
What are microservices? Let's start our discussion by setting a foundation of what microservices are. Microservices are a way of breaking large software projects into loosely coupled modules, which communicate with each other through simple Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). ...
AWS Certification Practice Exam: What to Expect from Test Questions
If you’re building applications on the AWS cloud or looking to get started in cloud computing, certification is a way to build deep knowledge in key services unique to the AWS platform. AWS currently offers 12 certifications that cover major cloud roles including Solutions Architect, De...
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate: A Study Guide
Want to take a really impactful step in your technical career? Explore the AWS Solutions Architect Associate certificate. Its new version (SAA-C02) was released on March 23, 2020. The AWS Solutions Architect - Associate Certification (or Sol Arch Associate for short) offers some ...
What Exactly Is a Cloud Architect and How Do You Become One?
One of the buzzwords surrounding the cloud that I'm sure you've heard is "Cloud Architect." In this article, I will outline my understanding of what a cloud architect does and I'll analyze the skills and certifications necessary to become one. I will also list some of the types of jobs ...
How DNS Works – the Domain Name System (Part One)
Before migrating domains to Amazon's Route53, we should first make sure we properly understand how DNS works While we'll get to AWS's Route53 Domain Name System (DNS) service in the second part of this series, I thought it would be helpful to first make sure that we properly understand...
S3 FTP: Build a Reliable and Inexpensive FTP Server Using Amazon’s S3
Is it possible to create an S3 FTP file backup/transfer solution, minimizing associated file storage and capacity planning administration headache? FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a fast and convenient way to transfer large files over the Internet. You might, at some point, have config...
How I Prepared for the 70-533 Azure Exam
I have been an IT Professional for over two decades. In that time, I have seen and experienced many changes in the IT landscape. Such changes included the move away from Novell to a fledgling company called Microsoft, the shift to something called Active Directory, and the explosion of...
Which Certifications Should I Get?
The old AWS slogan, “Cloud is the new normal” is indeed a reality today. Really, cloud has been the new normal for a while now and getting credentials has become an increasingly effective way to quickly showcase your abilities to recruiters and companies. With all that in mind, the s...
Cloud Migration Risks & Benefits
If you’re like most businesses, you already have at least one workload running in the cloud. However, that doesn’t mean that cloud migration is right for everyone. While cloud environments are generally scalable, reliable, and highly available, those won’t be the only considerations dri...
Learn Cloud Computing: Prerequisites
What are the prerequisites and requirements to learn cloud computing? This is the first article in a series to introduce our members to the prerequisites to learning cloud computing. This was a question I was emailed countless times from our users, and while we have Learning Paths, AWS...