A Cloud Guru (discontinued) vs. Practice Labs

If your organization is technical-based and offers its employees different online courses to enhance their knowledge, then A Cloud Guru will be perfect for you. There are multiple courses available from different cloud platforms. The platform is easy to use and navigate and does not require much knowledge. Even if you do not have basic technical knowledge, the courses available in A Cloud Guru are designed in such a manner that a non-technical person will understand the concept easily.

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It works well to explain basic concepts to students, and helps them understand these concepts by a step by step process in the lab. But it does not really challenge the students into thinking for themselves or help them gain better skills, it only helps them understand a concept. Due to its slow speed it does prove difficult to use.

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• The team at A Cloud Guru is excellent at responding to user feedback that is submitted through their website.
• The content created is well organized and aligns to certification paths.
• The content is accessible on mobile and web platforms, which is great for learning on the go.

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• Clear steps
• Large number of labs
• Easy to use

Incentivized

• More material on other cloud providers GCP, Azure, Huawei.
• Extend the sandboxes to other cloud providers not only AWS.
• Include more material for non-technical people, sometimes the sales teams are completely lost in the platform but they would like to learn about it.

Incentivized

• Needs to be more efficient
• The labs need to be more challenging
• It needs to have a more stable connection

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The support team of A Cloud Guru is quite quick. There are scenarios where A Cloud Guru was not working in my organization. We reached out to their support team and they quickly resolved the issue. Also, if any individual is facing issues accessing A Cloud Guru, their support team is quick to resolve the issue.

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The main differentiator was the contents as we were interested in a cloud platform other similar platforms did not have the below: it is very good to establish cloud learning development plans and then track them and manage them for the team. The platform supports learning tracks, exams, and sandboxes with all major cloud providers guarantees that you don't get an accidental charge as a result of [the] testing and exploring the cloud

Incentivized

Practice labs provides better steps for solving labs but due to its inefficiency and slow connection which leads to most students getting frustrated and dropping the labs. However on the other hand practice labs makes it easier to grade multiple students and integrates with canvas very easily.

Incentivized

• Engagement scores around investment in L&D have increased.
• There's excitement around upcoming changes to our technology instead of fear we have seen in the past.
• We feel confident we will be able to deliver these new technologies - although we are at the start of our journey.

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• Slow connections
• Very basic labs
• Crashes often

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