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About the Course

Start your cloud computing journey with this self-paced introductory course! Whether you need general cloud computing knowledge for school or business, or you are considering a career change, this beginner-friendly course is right for you. In this course you’ll learn about essential characteristics of cloud computing and emerging technologies supported by cloud. You’ll explore cloud service models, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), and Public, Private, and Hybrid deployment models. Discover the offerings of prominent cloud service providers AWS, Google, IBM, Microsoft, and others, and review cloud computing case studies. Learn about cloud adoption, blockchain, analytics, and AI. You will learn about the many components of cloud computing architecture including datacenters, availability zones, virtual machines, containers, and bare metal servers. You will also familiarize yourself with different types of cloud storage options, such as Object Storage. You’ll gain foundational knowledge of emergent cloud trends and practices including Hybrid, Multicloud, Microservices, Serverless, DevOps, Cloud Native, Application Modernization, as well as learn about cloud security and monitoring. You’ll also explore cloud computing job roles and possible career paths and opportunities. You will complete a number of labs and quizzes throughout this course to increase your understanding of course content. At the end of the course, you will complete a final project where you will deploy an application to Cloud using a serverless architecture, a valuable addition to your portfolio. After this course, check out the related courses to help you towards your new career as a cloud engineer, full stack developer, DevOps engineer, cybersecurity analyst, and others....

Top reviews

SB

May 19, 2020

It was so so grateful being here , I loved it course so much , as it provided all the concepts very clearly , I would also recommend all other to have this course and gain knowledge provided by IBM.

RV

Nov 9, 2020

Amazing course by IBM. They teach the subject with simplicity and purpose, that makes you study with zeal.

I recommend this course for all those who want a basic understanding of cloud computing.

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By Ana D F

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Sep 19, 2023

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By Miguel Q W

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Jun 7, 2023

This course is extremely boring and monotonous. First of all, in every single video, the same annoying generic background music plays for the entire duration, and it is extremely annoying. Additionally, the voiceover sounds very robotic, and the presentation slides are bad as the voiceover reads the bullet points word-by-word. If you are doing the IBM Full Stack Software Developer Professional Certificate, this course will bore you, and it is not significantly related to the other courses in the certificate. I do not recommend this course nor the IBM Full Stack Software Developer Professional Certificate in general. I have cancelled my subscription, and I am now doing Meta's Back-End Web Development Professional Certificate, and it is so much better (not an ad). There is a real person speaking to you face-to-face, and when necessary, animated diagrams pop up. Again, not an ad, it is my own personal opinion.

By Kyle O

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Jun 26, 2023

The course appears to be cobbled together from a mixture of promotional material, internal training modules and some modules that may have actually been designed specifically for this course.

The discussion board is absolutely littered with people having problems accessing the IBM cloud to complete their final assignments as it appears the trial codes that are supplied don't play very well with the actual cloud suite. Overall this is an almost comically bad introduction to what is supposed to be a 12-part full stack development course.

Yikes... Where can I find the equivalent course sponsored by Microsoft?

By Zachary W

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Mar 27, 2023

Course material is presented by text-to-speech which wasn't engaging at all. The 4 or so lectures that were done by actual people were much better.

The peer review system for the final assignment isn't working properly - it asks me to review "peers" that submitted their assignments almost two years ago, or even submissions from deleted accounts. Meanwhile there are dozens of posts on the forums asking for people to review their submission or re-review because they were unfairly graded 0/10.

By Matias J ( w D

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May 16, 2024

The first part, it seemed that the point of cloud being more cost effective was drilled so much into my head, it felt like the course was trying to sell me the idea of cloud rather then teach me about it. Also the amount of time IBM was being mentioned as a provider also just made it feel like a sales pitch. I understand the course is from IBM, but it grew quite bothersome

By Chung, W

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Jun 1, 2023

For those videos involving a person explaining the ideas, it is very clear. However, most of the time the slides contain too many words, like using more abstract sentences to explain the target word/term, which is not helpful. Besides, the summary slide always contain lots of sentences or bullet points, which then lose the meaning as a summary slide.

By Ben S

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Oct 22, 2024

Background music is to loud. Not silenced durring other videos with background music. Bad ai voice. Dont use an AI voice. There were clear mutes ware people were talking and you just mutted them instead of re recoring the audio. Felt rushed, inochisive, and unpolished. if this was my first course I would ask for a refund.

By Vitor F

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Dec 15, 2024

The quality of the learning material was extremely low, information was sparse and verbose, and the use of AI voices lead to an unengaging and frustrating learning experience. This whole course could have been a single module of a bigger course and there would be no loss of information.

By Minh T L

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Apr 24, 2024

The questionaires were often worded very unprecise. The voice over becomes obnoxious very quickly ( sounds ai like) . A lot of topics where unecessarily long. For a course that has this amount of traffic I expected something else.

By Ernesto M

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Jul 23, 2022

Content is well delivered. Videos are very instructive and easy to understand. However, it is impossible to complete week 5 due to not being able to create an IBM cloud account. A lot of time wasted there...

By Supriya D

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Mar 14, 2024

This could is good but far more technical than a business leader needs to know. Also, I could never finish the final assignment because instructions weren't clear and the testing app crashed my computer.

By Jonas L

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Nov 20, 2023

The videos were good, but the quizzes were terrible. There were 4 options that meant almost the same thing, but you had to pick the right phrasing. I will search for other courses for this subject.

By Sayoni D

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May 1, 2023

too many recorded videos of just a computer reading out from the screen & no up to the mark explanation. Videos where industry people were explaining were better to comprehend

By Federico D

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Nov 23, 2023

Extremely basic stuff with a lot of ads (interviewed people are not in a position where they can be neutral. Also, you can see many of them reading from a script)

By Harold E

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Apr 9, 2023

This course has too much corporate language which becomes quickly annoying. Many explanations are vague, nonetheless, there are still some useful ideas.

By Corey

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Sep 15, 2024

We were encouraged to sign up for an IBM cloud account which we didn't use at all during the course. Many topics were covered superficially.

By Josh R

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Mar 20, 2024

Extremely basic material with a firehose of overly simplistic videos and labs that didn't have quite enough detail or maintenance to follow.

By Raisa S

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Jul 25, 2023

I dont understand why do we need to be charged for the last excersice, It is required to put my CC on the IBM platform, I am not quite agree

By Austin D

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May 24, 2024

The course was good, but the final lab was very poorly written. It is missing key information i.e. What Port to use, so was not finishable.

By Collin L

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Nov 2, 2023

The videos are not very engaging and the final course lab does not work properly. Fails to initialize with load balancer.

By Thurlapati S S P

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Jun 14, 2024

I did not get my name in the certificate. Could you please check and give the certificate with my name - "TS Praneetha"

By Richard W

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Oct 10, 2024

The intonation in the female voice is very monotone and makes it hard to voice. Loved the example with the glass board

By Salvatore Z

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Mar 24, 2022

There needs to be an intro course to programming terms. Screenshots are outdated and do not match course material.

By Lady D

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May 24, 2023

Many of the videos did not seem "natural". Especially in the beginning it felt like advertisement.

By Muhammadh F

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Nov 21, 2023

I would like to see a real teaching interaction than background voice over the presentation :(