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anandg

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Hi,


I am located in Chennai. I would to like to learn about Cloud computing, especially AWS. I want to learn everything and more about the technical skills a Cloud system administrator needs. I don’t know where or how to start with Cloud computing. I need a person to teach me everything from basics to expert level with real time examples. I also heard that Linux commands and knowledge about Linux is required for Cloud administrator. I have no idea about any of this.


I would like to know the cost and duration of the course. I prefer online training as I work in night shifts and my week off is rotational. Please send me the details by email.

A general advice on how and where to start learning about Cloud computing is also appreciable.
 
Simple: Apply for Amazon's AWS Free Tier and use it! That's it what a cloud platform is all about today! :rolleyes:
The rest is just marketing fuzz! :cool:

Or (even simpler): Apply for a GMail email address! That's it about a could service today! :rolleyes:
The rest is just marketing fuzz! :cool:
 
The "cloud" is not a single, organized entity. Depending on the cloud service provider, you might have clouds built on different hardware and software platforms.

I would suggest you start with the basics of virtualization. If you want to administer virtual systems themselves, Windows and Linux experience would be a plus. If you're wanting to administer actual cloud platforms, though you're going to need to probably specialize depending on what kind of job you're targeting.

The bottom line is there's not a single, simple answer to the question you're asking.
 
A question for you. What is your budget for this knowledge which is changing tangibly everyday?

If it is high enough, get yourself a basic education at College or University level and then specialize in networking and VM's.

At that point, apply to the biggest cloud employer (at present, that is MS) and push your way to the top of the food chain anyway you can.

When you've reached that goal, you can begin writing about how to 'cloud', for others. :)
 
Google is actually the largest cloud employer, at least in terms of market share/revenue, although Microsoft isn't far behind. ;)
 
Google is actually the largest cloud employer, at least in terms of market share/revenue, although Microsoft isn't far behind. ;)

I'm talking about actual employees. :)
 
Well sure, but basically every person Google employs is working on "the cloud" whereas only about 40% of M$ employees are. :D
 
Google is actually the largest cloud employer, at least in terms of market share/revenue, although Microsoft isn't far behind

Headcount is one thing - but I'll suggest that AWS is a bigger player in the public cloud... (there are a couple of others I won't mention, and no, they don't ring your phone, they have very large clouds as well, all private)

Much resources are being put in this space...
 
I am located in Chennai. I would to like to learn about Cloud computing, especially AWS.

Go to school again - or do some independent research - big players out there, but you must really start to understand the reasons and methods (the why's and how's) about the cloud - and whether it is suitable to deploy apps into it, and even then - private or public - rent or own...
 
Headcount is one thing - but I'll suggest that AWS is a bigger player in the public cloud... (there are a couple of others I won't mention, and no, they don't ring your phone, they have very large clouds as well, all private)

Much resources are being put in this space...

If you want to talk about thought leadership, I would argue AWS is #2 right after Google. In terms of installed base, they're obviously huge. They just don't have the street value of M$ or Google, if you know what I mean.

And yeah, there's a ton of major players in cloud, among them some of the household names - HP, IBM, and so on.
 
Well sure, but basically every person Google employs is working on "the cloud" whereas only about 40% of M$ employees are. :D

I'm pretty sure not all google employees are involved in building the 'cloud'. But either way, 40% of MS employees are still more than all of googles employees last time I checked. :)
 
I think the takeaway here is that there's a few different ways to do cloud - my recommendation is not to get locked into any one platform, but to study up on the theory and fundamentals of cloud architecture at a very high level, and also the business cases behind when and why cloud should be deployed...

Obviously, there are very large "public" clouds - Amazon, Google, Microsoft's Azure are just a few - there are others... and it's a rich vendor space too, with players like EMC, VMWare, Oracle, RedHat, Docker, etc...
 
$47 billion market cap.
I recall reading recently that EMC was acquired by a Fortune 100.
EMC also owns 80% of VMware.

Still small and that 80% of VMware would be included in that amount. ;)
 

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