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A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)

Overview

What is A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)?

A Cloud Guru (ACG) is a cloud learning provider that states they have helped 2,000,000+ people and more than 4,000 organizations level up their cloud skills. Founded in 2015, ACG was started by brothers Sam and Ryan Kroonenburg who…

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A Cloud Guru was the BEST learning platform that I have used. And I have used several!

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 8, 2022
Vetted ReviewVerified User
I was interested in Cloud Computing options that were available, so I signed up for a one year subscription to A Cloud Guru. I completed several introductory courses and then ...
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Garner Albright
Technician - Research & Development
Mobile Service Tech
Technology Unlimited, Inc.
A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)1 year of experience

ACG to help increase training quality.

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 31, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Educating and providing the opportunity for employees to advance in their cloud computing journey. We help allow employees to use their free time and dedicated company trainin...
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Jan Daniel Sulaiman
Program Manager - Information Technology
Product Manager IoT
1NCE
A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)3 years of experience

My experience using A Cloud Guru

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 9, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
I currently use A Cloud Guru as an admin in my organization. My role requires me to enable ACG access to employees who wants to take up cloud courses through the platform. The...
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Swarup Sangale
Analyst - Information Technology
Strategic Partner Management Senior Analyst
Accenture
A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)2 years of experience

Get your Cloud App up and running with ACG

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 22, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Cloud Guru is a fantastic tool for folks who need to learn a variety on AWS skills or pursue professional certifications
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Mark Nowowiejski
Professional - Information Technology
Sr. Instructional Designer
Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality
A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)3 years of experience

A Cloud Guru works well as part of the Cyber Academy Program

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 8, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
At PwC, we use A Cloud Guru as part of the Cyber Academy program to uplift our team member's cloud knowledge and skills. We encourage the team to do the training at their own ...
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Alex Feng
Consultant - Professional Services
Senior Manager
PwC
A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)3 years of experience
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$0.00

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Personal Basic

$31.59 ($379.00)

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per month (per year)

Personal Plus

$41.59 ($499.00)

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per month (per year)

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Details

What is A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)?

A Cloud Guru (ACG) is a cloud learning provider that states they have helped 2,000,000+ people and more than 4,000 organizations level up their cloud skills.

Founded in 2015, ACG was started by brothers Sam and Ryan Kroonenburg who recognized cloud learning through traditional training providers was expensive, outdated, and a pain to consume. With the acquisition of Linux Academy in 2019, ACG combined the strengths and benefits of both companies to create A Cloud Guru platform for modern tech skills.

ACG's approach to learning modern technologies includes access to updated courses, labs, and learning paths, instructors that aim to keep learners motivated, hands-on learning in real cloud environments, and bite-sized lessons to fit into a busy workday.

With its hands-on multi-cloud content library, ACG aims to give businesses the edge by scaling cloud expertise across their organizations and charting an accelerated course to cloud maturity.

in June 2021, Pluralsight announced they had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire A Cloud Guru. The acquisition is expected to close in late 2021.

A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) Features

  • Supported: Unlimited Courses, Quizzes & Certification Practice Exams
  • Supported: Unlimited Hands-On Labs
  • Supported: Cloud Playground (Servers & Sandboxes)
  • Supported: Certification Accelerator Program
  • Supported: Weekly Cloud Roundups
  • Supported: Community Forums
  • Supported: ACG Mobile Apps
  • Supported: Records of Completion
  • Supported: Learning Paths
  • Supported: Skills Assessment
  • Supported: Study Groups
  • Supported: Management Portal

A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) Videos

A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) Competitors

A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesEnglish

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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Great investment to become cloud ready

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
May 18, 2021
SD
Sagar Dhanrale
Director, Technical Enablement , Global Customer Success
Riverbed Technology (Computer Networking, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)
3 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) is used by support, professional services, and system engineers. We currently don't have the platform exposed to the entire organization. A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) is helping us in the coud-first philosophy that the company is adopting.
Pros
  • A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) has Playgrounds that let all our users spin up sandboxes. This feature is a big differentiator compared to the competition.
  • A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) content is the most up to date and current and helps our engineers pass the certification.
  • A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) provides built-in labs, which is great. Learner doesn't have to leave the course to spin a lab.
Cons
  • One scope of improvement is to have an ability for the admin users to nudge a learner.
Likelihood to Recommend
A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) is more suited for a company that is investing in any cloud technology (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) or any cloud-adjacent technologies (Dockers, Kubernetes, etc). It is less appropriate if you are dealing with traditional on-premises application development and support.

ACG to help increase training quality.

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
August 31, 2022
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Educating and providing the opportunity for employees to advance in their cloud computing journey. We help allow employees to use their free time and dedicated company training days to freely move around all the offered training as part of ACG. Together with ACG, we developed training paths that guide employees across all the available training.
Pros
  • Self guided Trainings
  • Online/Offline and ad-hoc video trainings
  • Exam preparation
  • Cloud Sandboxes
Cons
  • Keep up to date with new Exams
  • Provide more capabilities in the Sandboxes
  • A few more hand-on trainings matching the video lectures
Likelihood to Recommend
Overall, training and education are very advanced and help get employees trained. ACG is very good on that part. It can be optimized for the final exam preparation, especially for newer exams. The test quizzes and prep exams are a bit outdated sometimes. The Sandboxes are very good and a solid starting point, but they still should be a bit more integrated into the actual training lectures for guide hands-on training.

Great platform to get started on cloud

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
May 06, 2021
Verified User
Executive in Information Technology
Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 10,001+ employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are using A Cloud Guru to skill up our staff because we are moving our applications to the AWS cloud. We are also looking at other cloud providers and would be using the A Cloud Guru platform for its learning paths and sandboxes. We are also making use of the platform for certification preparation as well.
Pros
  • 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.
Cons
  • Not all content has closed captioning.
  • There are technical issues at times that require me to log back into the platform to continue learning.
  • I would have like more labs for the Azure based content.
  • I feel that the Azure content could have gone deeper in learning. There are many areas that were glossed over such as the data warehousing section in AZ-304.
Likelihood to Recommend
A Cloud Guru is well suited to get started on a cloud platform. It is not so well suited for experienced cloud engineers. The best way to obtain deeper experience is to have more hands-on labs. A Cloud Guru is also for certification prep. It allows you to figure out which areas you need more concentration on while going through the course.

ACG is a great platform to increase your team's cloud adoption

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
May 10, 2021
AA
Abdulrazzaq Alkhateeb
Snr Manager, Professional Services. Head of Delivery, APJ
Riverbed Technology (Computer & Network Security, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It is being used across all technology departments. It is helping us upskilling the technology teams to be ready for our future cloud transformation.
Pros
  • Short lessons, less than 20 min each.
  • Learning paths & tracks.
  • Cloud playground & labs.
Cons
  • The landing dashboard can be improved.
  • Completed courses & certificates can move out of the dashboard to something like completed courses tab.
  • Learning paths visualization can be improved.
Likelihood to Recommend
  • ACG is very good to assign, track and complete learning.
  • The learning & certifications paths are great.
  • The learning schedule with suggested daily topics is very useful.

Real and genuine Hand-On Experience, Sandboxes, and day-to-day problems all of them in ACG

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
October 06, 2021
LQ
Leo Quiroa
Machine Learning Engineer
Blue Orange Digital (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I think the biggest problem that ACG [A Cloud Guru] is solving is to match three elements equate the knowledge of all the members of the team, also even non-technical people the current pace of the development of AWS services, the demands of the clients for solutions in the cloud. Then, the company is able to close more business deals, the clients are happy with their solutions and all the team members feel satisfied with the level of understanding they have of the AWS Services and other Cloud Providers.
Pros
  • Sandboxes, because it gives you a real hands-on experience.
  • Hire really good and top developers with real experience in the field.
  • Organize their content in an easy way and keep updating it.
Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited if you:
Are a developer
Want to learn AWS with really good professors
Have hands-on experience on AWS

Less Appropriate [if] you:
Are part of a non-technical area such as Management, Sales, Project Management
You are a developer and want to go deep with hands-on experience into other cloud providers such as GCP, Azure
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