Cloud & DevOpsBeginner
Cloud Computing A–Z
From “what is the cloud?” to putting your own website on AWS — the skills behind Africa's fastest-growing tech jobs.
4.0 (1 rating)30 lessons2h 28m of video2 quizzes1 practical task Certificate
What you'll learn
- Explain cloud computing, data centres and virtual machines in plain words
- Tell IaaS, PaaS and SaaS — and public, private and hybrid cloud — apart
- Know what AWS, Azure and Google Cloud offer and how they compare
- Host a static website on cloud storage and keep costs at zero
- Understand shared responsibility, containers, serverless and CI/CD
- Plan a path to a cloud job and the right beginner certification
Course content
Part 1. What is the cloud?5 lessons
Part 2. How the cloud is organised5 lessons
Part 3. The big three: AWS, Azure and Google Cloud6 lessons
- What is cloud computing? (by AWS)by Amazon Web Services3 min
- Cloud vocabulary (Azure Fundamentals, episode 1)by Adam Marczak - Azure for Everyone10 min
- IaaS vs PaaS vs SaaS on Azureby Adam Marczak - Azure for Everyone8 min
- Cloud storage: Amazon S3 in 3 minutesby Amazon Web Services3 min
- Which cloud should I learn first?
- Go deeper: the free AWS Cloud Practitioner course
Part 4. Hands-on: your first cloud project3 lessons
Part 5. Security, cost and modern cloud8 lessons
- The shared responsibility modelby Amazon Web Services3 min
- How Google protects its data centres: 6 layers deepby Google Cloud Tech6 min
- Docker in 100 secondsby Fireship2 min
- Kubernetes in 100 secondsby Fireship2 min
- What is serverless?by IBM Technology7 min
- DevOps and CI/CD in 100 secondsby Fireship2 min
- CI/CD explained in 5 minutesby TechWorld with Nana5 min
- Quiz: security and modern cloud
Capstone project: Capstone project: Your website, live in the cloud. You finish by building something real; a mentor reviews it before your certificate is issued.
About this course
Banks, telcos, fintechs and governments across Africa are moving to the cloud, and they need people who understand it. This course takes you from zero to your first real cloud project: what the cloud is, how data centres work, the service and deployment models, the big three providers (AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud), storage, security, cost, containers, DevOps and the careers they lead to. You finish by hosting your own website in the cloud.
What learners say
4.0 from 1 learner