Cloud Platforms Academy
AWS · Azure · GCP
Become a cloud architect across AWS, Azure, and GCP. From core services to advanced patterns — VPCs, IAM, serverless, containers, cost optimisation, and multi-cloud strategy.
👤 Who This Is For
📋 Prerequisites
🎯 What You'll Be Able to Do
🗺️ Recommended Learning Path
📚 Explore Topics
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
The world's leading cloud platform — 200+ services
Broad AWS overview — compute, storage, networking, and databases together, not just one service
Identity and Access Management — users, roles, policies, OIDC, SCP
Virtual machines, auto-scaling, launch templates, spot instances
Virtual Private Cloud — subnets, routing, NAT, security groups, endpoints
Object storage — policies, versioning, lifecycle, events, CloudFront
Managed relational databases — MySQL, PostgreSQL, Aurora Serverless
Serverless functions — triggers, SAM, cold starts, layers, power tuning
Managed Kubernetes — node groups, Fargate, IRSA, ALB controller
AWS native IaC — stacks, templates, change sets, nested stacks
DNS — routing policies, health checks, failover, latency routing
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft's enterprise cloud platform
Broad Azure overview — compute, networking, identity, and databases together, not just VMs
Azure AD — SSO, MFA, RBAC, conditional access, managed identity
Azure VMs, scale sets, availability zones, spot VMs, Bastion
Virtual Networks, peering, NSGs, private endpoints, ExpressRoute
Azure Kubernetes Service — node pools, workload identity, upgrades
Pipelines, Boards, Repos, Artifacts, Test Plans — full CI/CD
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Google's cloud — best for data, ML, and Kubernetes
Google Kubernetes Engine — Autopilot, node pools, workload identity
Serverless data warehouse — SQL at petabyte scale, ML integration
Fully managed serverless containers — scale to zero, auto-scale
Cloud Strategy & Architecture
Multi-cloud, FinOps, security, and enterprise architecture
What cloud computing actually is — IaaS/PaaS/SaaS, shared responsibility, regions/AZs, core service categories
Multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud strategy — portability, vendor lock-in tradeoffs, workload placement
Multi-cloud architecture patterns: multi-AZ, hub-and-spoke, strangler fig, CQRS, saga, serverless event-driven
VPC/VNet design, security groups, NACLs, NSGs, Zero Trust, WAF, encryption at rest and in transit
CSPM, IAM best practices, encryption, compliance, guardrails
FinOps — rightsizing, reservations, savings plans, spot, tagging
Enterprise foundations — multi-account, governance, account vending