Cloud Advanced Training
Architect secure, highly available and cost-efficient cloud systems using Well-Architected practices and large-scale design patterns. Learn Cloud through a clear Foundation to Advanced path, with hands-on labs, live cohort options, certification support and full LMS access.
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Self-paced video subscription
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. This includes all four levels, complete LMS access for one year, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
- All four Cloud levels in one price.
- 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools included, even when subscribing to one course.
- Best fit for learners who want full-library access and flexible progress.
Live & Interactive session
Instructor-led cohort, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, assignments and practical review.
- Live small-batch cohort from soon.
- Interactive discussion and lab troubleshooting.
- Recommended for teams that need guided implementation.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
About Cloud Advanced Training.
Understand where Cloud fits in modern software delivery, what this level covers, and how the program builds practical confidence step by step.
Program overview
Cloud is taught as a practical technical skill for modern engineering, operations and platform teams. The course explains where the tool fits, how it is used in real delivery environments, and how learners can apply it through guided practice.
This DevOpsSchool Cloud program is built for working professionals who want usable skills instead of only conceptual exposure. The training emphasizes live examples, workflow clarity, operational controls and progressive skill depth from Foundation to Advanced.
Private Cloud training for delivery teams, platform groups and engineering organizations.
DevOpsSchool provides corporate Cloud training for teams that need faster adoption, workflow standardization, administrative control, integration guidance and governance-ready rollout. Private batches can be aligned to development practice, release workflow, access model, maturity level and internal tooling.
- Private online or classroom delivery for engineering teams
- Aligned to Cloud usage maturity, admin depth and collaboration patterns
- Useful for rollout, migration, governance and workflow consistency goals
- Can be tailored for developers, administrators, DevOps teams and leadership stakeholders
Why teams use DevOpsSchool
DevOpsSchool combines live demonstration, practical workflow discussion, implementation-oriented examples, and strong post-session learning support. That makes the training more usable for real teams than generic slide-led courses.
Choose any level. The page still shows the full progression.
Foundation, Essential, Intermediate and Advanced are presented as one linked training flow. Self-paced buyers get all levels by default, even if they start from only one course page.
Instructor-led, self-paced and corporate delivery options.
Compare delivery format, duration, level access and batch style. Fees are shown only in the top decision panel and once again after the agenda.
| Duration | Mode | Level access | Batch |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | Live & Interactive | Advanced | Public batch |
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | 1:1 Live training | Advanced | Starts immediately |
| 1 year LMS access | Self-paced video | All 4 levels | Anytime access |
| 5 Days | Corporate | Cloud Advanced Training | Private team batch |
What learners should be able to do after Cloud training.
The outcomes are written for practical delivery teams: developers, DevOps engineers, release engineers, administrators and technical leads.
Explain cloud fundamentals
Describe cloud models, roles, benefits, risks, SLAs and cost formulas with confidence.
Build on cloud services
Create networks, compute, storage, identity and databases on AWS with Azure and Google equivalents.
Architect for production
Design automated, secure, highly available and cost-optimized cloud architectures.
Why this skill, what you will achieve, and who should attend.
Use this section to decide whether the course matches your role, current experience and expected Cloud responsibilities before reviewing the detailed agenda.
Why Cloud matters
- Cloud helps teams standardize a critical part of their software delivery, infrastructure, automation or operations workflow.
- It gives learners a repeatable way to move from basic usage to confident execution in team and enterprise environments.
- For DevOps and platform teams, Cloud becomes more valuable when connected with automation, governance, monitoring and delivery practices.
- Teams using Cloud effectively reduce ad-hoc execution and move toward consistent engineering standards.
Objectives
- Understand Cloud concepts, architecture, terminology and operational usage patterns.
- Learn practical configuration, workflow design, access controls, team usage and quality practices.
- Apply Cloud in real delivery workflows using automation, integrations, traceability and governance patterns.
- Build practical confidence to use Cloud for individual, team and organizational use cases.
Pre-requisites
- Basic computer literacy and familiarity with software development workflows.
- Helpful but not mandatory: introductory DevOps, cloud, automation or software delivery awareness.
- No deep programming background is required for the Foundation and Essential levels.
Who this course is for
- Developers, administrators and engineers who need practical Cloud usage skills.
- DevOps engineers, release engineers, SREs and platform teams managing delivery standards.
- Engineering leads and technical managers responsible for workflow quality, access controls and governance.
- Corporate teams migrating to or standardizing on Cloud.
Small-batch live training starts every month.
Weekday batches start on the 1st and weekend batches on the first Saturday of every month. One-to-one (1:1) training can start immediately; corporate sessions are scheduled on demand.
Weekend live batch
Starts on the first Saturday of every month. Weekend sessions with demos, labs and Q&A; max 10 learners.
Weekday live batch
Starts on the 1st of every month. Weekday sessions for working professionals and distributed teams; max 10 learners.
Ask advisorAgenda depth up to the selected level.
This page shows the learning flow from Foundation through Advanced. Each level adds to the previous one, and the agenda stops at the current page level. Day counts are for corporate (day-wise) delivery; live online batches cover the same agenda in max 8 to 10 hours.
Foundation Level: cloud concepts, service and deployment modelsDay 1
- Cloud computing terminology and concepts: on-demand, elasticity, resiliency, availability and measured usage
- Virtualization and containerization essentials: hypervisors, virtual machines and containers
- Cloud service models: IaaS, PaaS and SaaS delivery models with examples
- Cloud deployment models: public, private, hybrid and community clouds, plus multicloud
- Cloud roles: resource administrator, service owner, service and service consumer
- Cloud trade-offs: benefits, challenges and risks of contemporary cloud platforms and services
- Provider overview: AWS, Azure and Google Cloud regions, availability zones and global services
- Getting started: free-tier accounts, console, CLI and billing alerts
- Compute basics: Amazon EC2 instance types, performance implications and launching a VM
- Cloud by role: system administrators, developers, IT consultants and CTOs or CIOs
Essential Level = Foundation + networking, storage, identity and core servicesDay 2 · 2 days cumulative
- Networking: Amazon VPC foundations, subnets, route tables, internet and NAT gateways
- Network security: security groups, network ACLs and VPN connections
- Object storage: Amazon S3 properties, securing buckets and static website hosting
- Block storage: Amazon EBS volumes, snapshot backup and replication, speed and IOPS
- Identity: IAM concepts and a walkthrough of users, groups, roles, policies and MFA
- Databases: Amazon RDS and Amazon DynamoDB
- Load balancing: Elastic Load Balancing concepts and implementation
- DNS and content delivery: Route 53 capabilities and configuration, and CloudFront
- Monitoring: Amazon CloudWatch metrics, alarms and logs
- Auto Scaling: scaling groups and scaling policies
- Cloud computing and storage across providers: Azure VNet and Blob, Google VPC and Cloud Storage, Entra ID and IAM
Intermediate Level = Essential + automation, security, SLAs and costDay 3 · 3 days cumulative
- Cloud automation, provisioning and management: Terraform and AWS CloudFormation
- Containers in the cloud: Amazon ECS, EKS, Azure AKS and Google GKE overview
- Serverless: AWS Lambda, API Gateway and event-driven design
- Security processes: shared responsibility model, AWS Config, Inspector and Directory Service
- Security requirements and policies: privacy, compliance, data security at rest and in transit, transparency
- Service Level Agreements: SLAs for cloud IT resources and formulas to rate quality of service
- Cost: business cost metrics and formulas comparing cloud and on-premises, tagging and budgets
- Best-practice checks: AWS Trusted Advisor recommendations
- Operations for sysadmins: migration, hybrid environments, provisioning, uptime and disaster recovery
- Developer concerns: performance, security, availability, deployment and the ecosystem
- Troubleshooting: connectivity, permissions and service quotas
Advanced Level = Intermediate + architecture, high availability and governanceDays 4-5 · 5 days cumulative
- Architecting for the cloud on AWS: Well-Architected pillars and AWS best practices
- AWS computing and storage best practices: choosing services for performance and cost
- High availability: designing VPCs for high availability, multi-AZ and multi-region architectures
- Automating and decoupling infrastructure: queues, events and microservices
- Large-scale design patterns: case studies of web, data and event-driven systems
- Containers at scale: Amazon ECS with Docker and Kubernetes services
- Multicloud and hybrid strategy: landing zones, AWS Organizations and Azure management groups
- FinOps: rightsizing, Savings Plans and reservations, spot capacity and showback
- Cloud security posture: CSPM, guardrails with SCPs and centralized logging
- Hosting a new web application on AWS: end-to-end design review
- Capstone: highly available, cost-optimized application across two regions
Choose live training or a full year of self-paced access.
If someone buys Foundation, Essential, Intermediate or Advanced as self-paced video, the price stays the same and access is granted to all four levels by default.
Self-paced video subscription
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. This includes all four levels, complete LMS access for one year, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
- All four Cloud levels in one price.
- 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools included, even when subscribing to one course.
- Best fit for learners who want full-library access and flexible progress.
Live & Interactive session
Instructor-led cohort, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, assignments and practical review.
- Live small-batch cohort from soon.
- Interactive discussion and lab troubleshooting.
- Recommended for teams that need guided implementation.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
- Start immediately: no waiting for the monthly batch.
- One learner, one trainer: full attention on your questions.
- Sessions planned around your working hours.
- Your pace, with examples from your own projects and tools.
Method of training and assessment.
The course emphasizes practical demonstration, hands-on labs and assignment-based validation instead of passive lecture-only learning.
| SL | Method of training and assessment | Weightage |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Understanding the problem space | 5% |
| 2 | Concept discussion | 10% |
| 3 | Live demo and walkthrough | 25% |
| 4 | Lab and hands-on exercises | 50% |
| 5 | Assignments and evaluation | 10% |
Labs, exercises and real workflow practice.
Every level moves from explanation to hands-on practice, review and troubleshooting.
Launch and secure a first VM
Create a cloud account with a billing alert, launch a Linux VM with an SSH key and restrict access with a firewall rule.
Build a two-tier web application
Create a VPC with public and private subnets, run a web tier behind a load balancer with Auto Scaling and a managed database.
Provision infrastructure as code
Rebuild the two-tier application with Terraform, add Config rules and budgets, and calculate its SLA and monthly cost.
Multi-region architecture capstone
Design and deploy a decoupled web application across two regions with failover, guardrails and a cost optimization report.
Cloud is taught as part of a working delivery ecosystem.
You learn where the tool sits in the wider engineering workflow, not in isolation.
Core foundations
Terminology, concepts, architecture and the operating model behind the tool.
Workflow traceability
Map practical work to tasks, approvals, documentation and delivery visibility.
Automation and integration
Use Cloud with validation checks, automation hooks and delivery workflows.
Governance controls
Operate with permissions, approvals, policy checks and production-safe workflows.
How your practical work is assessed.
Your certificate is backed by labs, assignments, capstone thinking and completion evidence.
Assignments
Level-specific assignments verify setup, configuration, workflow quality and operating discipline.
Hands-on validation
Learners are expected to complete practical usage, automation and troubleshooting exercises.
Completion record
Certificate issuance is tied to demonstrated participation, practical completion and course-level coverage.
Led by Rajesh Kumar and the DevOpsSchool practitioner network.
Training is grounded in practical DevOps, SRE, security, release and platform engineering experience with real enterprise delivery context.
Earn a DevOpsSchool Cloud certificate.
Completion includes a digital certificate with credential details, practical assignments and a learning record aligned to the selected Cloud level.
Certificate verificationCertificate of Completion
Cloud Advanced Training
Unique credential ID, verifiable online
What learners say about training with Rajesh Kumar.
“Rajesh is very good trainer. Rajesh was able to resolve our queries and question effectively. We really liked the hands-on examples covered during this training program.”
“Very well organized training, helped a lot to understand the AWS concept and detailed related to various tools. Very helpful”
“The training was very useful and interactive. Rajesh helped develop the confidence of all.”
Rated 4.6 on Google · All testimonials · Video reviews on YouTube
Quoted as published, from learners in Rajesh Kumar's live trainings across DevOpsSchool courses.
Used by developers, DevOps engineers, release leads and engineering managers.
Private batches are available for teams that want the same agenda aligned to their own tools and workflows.
Why this Cloud path is different.
The value is not only one course. The subscription unlocks the full learning ecosystem for one year.
| Feature | DevOpsSchool Cloud Training | Typical short course |
|---|---|---|
| Levels | Foundation, Essential, Intermediate, Advanced | Single generic syllabus |
| Self-paced access | All four levels plus 20+ courses and 50+ tools | Usually one course only |
| Live training | Demos, labs, Q&A and assignment review | Often lecture-heavy |
| Certificate | DevOpsSchool completion certificate | Varies by provider |
Questions learners ask before joining.
Does Foundation cost less than Advanced?
No. Self-paced pricing is intentionally the same because access includes all four levels by default.
What is included in the yearly subscription?
One year of complete LMS access, all four levels for the selected course, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
Can corporate teams request customization?
Yes. The live format can be aligned to team tools, governance requirements, workflows and internal delivery standards.
What is the recommended sequence?
Foundation → Essential → Intermediate → Advanced. The agenda is designed so each level builds on the previous one.
Talk to DevOpsSchool before choosing the batch.
Use this support section for batch questions, corporate planning, LMS access clarifications, or guidance on which Cloud level fits your team.
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Email: contact@DevOpsSchool.com
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Training snapshots and certificate preview.
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Tool-focused training
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Live batch experience
Training supports live online, private team and workshop-style delivery.
Start Cloud Advanced training.
Next weekday batch starts on the 1st; weekend batch on the first Saturday. Batches are capped at 10 learners. Send your details and DevOpsSchool will share the syllabus and batch options.