Cloud Computing: AWS, Azure, GCP

Pick AWS for breadth of ecosystem and hiring volume, Azure if you work with Microsoft stacks and enterprise AD/Intune, and GCP for data/ML tooling and Kubernetes leadership. Align the choice with your team stack and local market demand.

Start with Cloud Practitioner for foundations, then Solutions Architect Associate to design resilient architectures. Add Developer or SysOps if you focus on CI/CD or operations. Practice on free tier: S3, EC2, IAM policies, VPCs, and CloudWatch.

Begin with AZ‑900 then move to AZ‑104 (Administrator) or AZ‑204 (Developer). Emphasize identity, RBAC, VNets, Storage, and App Services. Use Microsoft Learn sandboxes and validate skills with small deployments and policy assignments.

Take Cloud Digital Leader or Associate Cloud Engineer. Focus on IAM, VPC, Cloud Storage, GKE, and monitoring. Build containerized apps, deploy to GKE, and measure cost/performance trade‑offs.

Learn shared responsibility, encryption at rest/in transit, key management, IAM least privilege, and logging/alerting. Practice incident simulations and policy remediation.