Learning Cloud FAQ - Top 10

• Q: Which cloud?
  • A: Most overall jobs - AWS
  • A: Cheapest, most performant to learn/experiment - GCP
  • A: Fastest enterprise growth - Azure
  • A: Quantum - IBM

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• Q: Which languages?
  • A: Python (application development)
  • A: Terraform (infrastructure)

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• Q: Where to start?
  • A: Pick a vendor, setup a free trial account
  • A: Set up multi-factor authentication for your login (email)
  • A: Set up a billing alert, send to your email

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• Q: Which service(s)?
  • A: Core services are VMs, file storage (buckets) and security (AWS: EC2, S3, IAM....)

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• Q: How to get a job?
  • A: Build something, get certified, talk (post) about it - in this order

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• Q: How do I avoid a surprise, big cloud bill when learning?
  • A: Set a budget alert and notification
  • A: Turn off VMs when not using
  • A: Use smallest sized VMs/GPUs as is practical for testing

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• Q: What are some 'overlooked' areas?
  • A: Security, cost control - more jobs than qualified people

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• Q: Can I do Gen AI / ML on the cloud?
  • A: Most complete offering - GCP VertexAI

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• Q: Which certifications get me the highest paying jobs?
  • A: GCP

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• Q: Whare are the most interesting/useful cloud data services by vendor?
  • A: Azure - CoPilot(s), CosmosDB
  • A: AWS - S3, EC2, AWS Braket (Quantum)
  • A: GCP - BigQuery, VertexAI, DataProc (managed Apache Spark), Dataplex
  • A: IBM - Qiskit (Quantum)