A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) vs Microsoft Azure

• The videos are short and easy to ingest. This is super important! Long videos get boring and people lose interest quickly
• New training videos for new technology are always being added regularly
• In addition to new videos, existing training videos are updated when software or technology changes, ensure that you always have current information while you're learning

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• Azure Functions is the easiest serverless service to work with in my experience. Easy to ship Node.js functions without bundling dependencies.
• Proactive and responsive support. We've worked with most other cloud providers - Amazon, Google, Oracle. Amazon Web Services' customer support is a black hole and their documentation is worthless. Google and Oracle are better, but Azure's support is responsive and their docs are pretty good.
• Azure's Web UI is pretty easy to work with

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• The merger with A Cloud Guru has confused things a bit. They're slowly replacing the Linux academy branded training with ACG training (which is fine) but if we found ourselves losing access to training videos while we were in the midst of watching them
• A more robust community would be nice. There's the Slack channel, but I wish there was more robust community features
• It would be nice to be able to download videos locally on desktops and laptops. This helps greatly with rewinding the video to reiterate key learning points

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• Could be easier to setup redundancy
• Feels as if there are too many options, bells, and whistles you could add.
• Microsoft Azure functions does not have a "Configure Services" method. Programming Azure functions has a slightly different programming model than does a "normal" API application. I would prefer that the startup process be identical.

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• Linux Academy keeps us on the cutting edge, that's a huge positive impact.
• We're able to use Linux Academy to help earn IT certifications for our employees
• It keeps our employees wanting to learn more, which improves our skillsets as a whole.

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• It has taken a few years of planning and growth (which continue), but we've been able to successfully budget and plan for ever increased capacity by starting first with some Virtual Machines and factoring in on-prem maintenance vs cloud constant improvements. VM (server, compute, networking) costs even out quickly over time and will show savings very soon.
• Because of Azure Application Gateways (which cost very little to set up and maintain), we were able to build a state of the art single-sign-on hub for all of our users and other enterprise platforms (mostly non-Microsoft and non Azure systems), reducing the amount of time to switch among these for workers and increasing overall productivity.
• With Azure Active Directory, we do not need to maintain separate identity systems and can more easily integrate our organizations credentials into authorization for access to other systems.

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