TrustRadius Insights for A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Easy-to-use and effective reports: Users have found the reports in A Cloud Guru to be user-friendly and efficient in tracking individual progress. Several reviewers have appreciated this feature, allowing them to effectively monitor and evaluate learner performance.
Wide range of materials: The vast selection of resources available in A Cloud Guru has received high praise from users. They value the variety of materials that cater to different certifications, ensuring learners have access to comprehensive and diverse content.
Excellent hands-on practice: The sandbox instances provided by A Cloud Guru have been described as excellent by several users. This opportunity for real hands-on experience enhances learning and allows individuals to apply their knowledge in a practical setting.
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 role also requires to continue reviewing employees who have been provided access but were not able to access the platform yet. So I will have to reach out to them, and if no response is received, I will have to de-authorize their access. The platform is very easy to use, which makes me happy to manage my organization's work on it. With the help of reporting stuff in A Cloud Guru, it is very easy for me to make the statistics for my organization every month. I also manage to take some courses through A Cloud Guru, and it is very helpful. With my background in non-IT, it was a little difficult for me to start with the training material, but the content was very easy to understand. We can create study groups in ACG so that we can easily track their progress. We can create multiple groups with the same individuals or different individuals. Also, we can reuse the licenses.
Pros
Reports in A Cloud Guru is quite easy. We can simply track progress of individuals.
Wide range of materials in A Cloud Guru helps individuals to prepare for different certifications.
When Linux Academy was acquired by A Cloud Guru, it was mentioned that all the courses would be migrated to ACG from Linux. However, for a long time, it has not happened. So users from Linux were not aware and happy about this migration.
Cons
I don't think there are any features which are hard to use.
A Cloud Guru is just perfect.
Easy to use.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
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 pace and get certified.
Pros
Course materials (video)
Reference materials
Lab
Cons
Mock exam
Comparison / linking between certifications (high level introduction)
Likelihood to Recommend
A Cloud Guru works well when people [have a] certain level of IT / Cyber knowledge. But for the new joiner/entry-level people, may need classroom-based training and more basic/foundational courses before jumping into the A Cloud Guru courses.
At my current employer, they really push hard for people to get certified in all things. [The] Cloud is a very hot topic. We are always providing bonuses and incentives to get certified. One of the resources that come highly recommended [is[ A Cloud Guru. I have personally used it to get AWS and AZURE certified. I like small-bit-size lessons and hands-on training. They walk you through beginning to end and help you get certified. [I] would highly recommend them to anyone going down the cloud path.
Pros
Bit Size Lessons
Easy Walk throughs
Knowledgeable staff
Cons
Updated videos more often
Practice questions
Discord or forum to talk to others
Likelihood to Recommend
A Cloud [Guru] would be great for a Jr cloud engineer who needs help with a basic task. He can watch a quick video and get right to work on a task assigned by a manager. He could also use the downtime to improve his skills and work toward his next certification.
VU
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
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
We use A Cloud Guru to train new employees in customer-facing roles on the cloud basics to ensure that they are speaking the language of the customer and understand their specific, cloud-based, needs. Technical roles utilize the platform to achieve additional focused training in their assigned work roles. By using certification as a check on learning, we not only ensure a higher level of knowledge it also helps address the constant battle of certified employees required by cloud vendors for the higher tier partnerships.
Pros
The guided learning tracks helped keep teams on track.
Lab setup and execution makes it really easy for employees to try out new skills.
Linux content is an added bonus.
Cons
Some gaps in knowledge for certification.
UI is slow and unpredictable at times.
More reporting for users would make the platform more attractive as an LMS.
Likelihood to Recommend
ACG is a fantastic resource if you need to get new users up to speed on the latest in cloud technologies in a short amount of time without having to create your own learning tracks. ACG is also a great fit for companies looking to maintain partner certification levels by giving the employees a solid platform to learn, test skills in a lab, determine preparedness via practice exams and solid dashboard to track progress.
This is used by multiple teams. We use it to train our consultants in cloud to deliver a proper solution to our clients. It also provides a great way to test it with sandboxes. I'm using it for testing some cloud infrastructure for proving to our clients that we are able to deliver a real solution with real examples.
Pros
Sandbox of each cloud provider
Good explanation
Good instructor
Content
Cons
Not agile for fixing error in the training.
Old courses from Linux Academy are not easy to copy/paste.
Not consistent format video format from Linux Academy and ACG.
Likelihood to Recommend
This is a very good platform for practicing cloud services with the sandbox feature. For example, I'm using it to create a full network and security infrastructure with Terraform on my computer for easy building all the stack from the previous test. If you do not use Terraform (or a tool like that), it's difficult to create over and over the same test because of the 4 hour limit.
VU
Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology (51-200 employees)
We use A Cloud Guru in several departments, on the IT Group. We use it to review our infrastructure on AWS and get ready to obtain the certification on architecture. At the same time, we are lowering our costs on the cloud.
Pros
The instructors are really good at explaining from a beginner lever to advanced.
The courses are really well structured, and the labs really show you step by step the resources on the cloud.
The business level gives well structured use reports of the ACG users.
Likelihood to Recommend
ACG really works well with a certification scenario. We got the certification with barely 1 1/2 weeks of use (at the middle level of architecture). The high level will need more time but the introduction reminds you that.
A Cloud Guru is used by our company in several ways. It is a great foundational learning platform for new users and also a great spot for more expeirenced professionals to learn about new services/releases. New users can explore intro topics at their own pace and use Sandboxes to get hands on experience. There is so much in-depth content in the lectures I didn't feel the need for studying directly from AWS training. I've used the coursework and the practice quizzes to prepare for and pass an AWS certificate exam.
Pros
Sandboxes
Thorough Lectures
Self-Paced
Frequent Updates
Cons
Site can feel a bit busy
Likelihood to Recommend
I feel A Cloud Guru is well suited for anyone looking to learn about cloud related topics (on any of the main platforms). There is a lot of breadth and depth available. There are even study groups that can be used for getting individuals from your team together to study in a self-organized 'class'. Due to licensing limits, the only use case where A Cloud Guru would not be ideal is for company wide learning.
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
