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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

BP

Oct 28, 2022

Great review for Cloud concepts that I needed. Probably would use it once I start studying for some AWS content since not many people use IBM but still a great way to get started in cloud computing.

TS

Aug 7, 2022

The learning materials and method are designed to be very comprehensible. I am confident with the skills and knowledge i've acquired knowing that I can build on this and be job ready in little time.

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By Laura B

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Aug 5, 2023

I can't create an IBM cloud account.

It sends me the verification code, so it has no issues with my email.

I've tried 4x, posted on the forum, talked to the bot to no avail for suggestions on what to do.

It just tells me that it's unable to create my account with no explanation as to why or how to resolve it.

I guess I'll have to cancel.

I can't believe that there is no one, no way to fix this!!! No one responds on Twitter, or on the forum here.

Wow. I can't finish the course, and will unlikely ever be taking any others on Coursera, and will be warning people not to take any from here.

By Tim L g

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Apr 1, 2023

To complete the course you need an IBM cloud account, which many students including myself were unable to sign up for due to an unidentified error with IBM. There is no course support for this, so you will be stuck waiting for it to be fixed, and the only advice given is to contact IBM support. It seemed like a good course, but until they can get a reliable, functioning cloud provider attached to the course it seems like some students won't be able to progress past the earliest stages.

By Alessandro P

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Nov 18, 2024

This course looks written by a low-tier AI which prompt was to sell IBM cloud services. Most of it is filled with nonsense, incorrect informations, incoherence, and the quiz are solvable from a 3 yrs old kid that never watched the lessons, because the questions are either obvious or nonsense. I reccomend to speed run this section and skip it as much as possible, and focus on other courses if you are following some of IBM certifications courses

By Pedro G

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Oct 25, 2022

They ask for an IBM Cloud Account and it was impossible for me to get it, the code they give you doesn't work, tried with 2 email addresses and tried with 2 different credit cards and nothing works, you only get a generic error message that says nothing. I've learnt 2 things: don't do this course or any course by IBM and don't use IBM Cloud in the future.

By Mehdi K

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Jan 21, 2023

The course is too wordy for non-native person , and it's unnecessary to use that kind of literature , It's hard enough to grasp the concept then I had to check the dictionary every 1 minute !

and grading system for the last assignment is just not right ! not everyone is honest about their doing and they just push 0 points for completely correct answer !

By Tyler B

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May 27, 2024

None of this added with coursera plus resulted in a job. Waste of my time and money. Have the background. 3 yeara Experience with gap. And skill set. This entire site didn't set anybody up for career prospects. Going to continue reviewing the rest of the courses in a similar manner until I receive recompense or justice.

By Benedict L

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Jun 23, 2024

Pls stop putting annoying music under videos that are meant to be studied. It is super distracting and wasn't done in the other courses from ibm! Also the audio level is sometimes really different and in some videos the intro and outro are so much louder than the lesson itself. Pls try to level your audio.

By Nishant

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Jan 6, 2023

This course highlights everything wrong with the Indian education system. Half the course is advertisement about IBM services and the other half will bore you to death. Please audit the course and then pay for it. It's not at all worth the money if you really want to learn something.

By Mark B

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Jul 10, 2024

Imagine a seemingly endless business meeting, where Marketing people give you Power Point presentations about Cloud Computing. Zero interactivity, no technical challenges, narration that sounds like AI, and a lot of corporate phrases.

By ali m y

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Feb 27, 2024

Awful! Shame on IBM. It's not a course. It doesn't teach anything; it's just an advertisement for the cloud. One question for the staff that created this course: Have you ever seen an educational course in your life?

By chino C

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Aug 8, 2023

Terrible! When you are stuck, there is no body to assist you. I truly hope I don't face similar problem in the upcoming course. If that's the case, I will quit it and take the Facebook course. Tired of it already!

By Robert D

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Dec 11, 2022

Don't Pay to take any of these courses until IBM Full Stack Developer Certification Course has been updated. There is a new version with 13 classes, and its pointless to do the 12 course version.

By Paul P

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Jan 12, 2023

During issues (like creating a IBM Clout Account), no help can be found, meaning you can't progress the course but still get charged.

By Selena

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Jun 24, 2024

Typos in tests/quizzes Unfinished sentences on slides Lack of coherent video structure Voiced by unentertaining AI-like voice

By Abraham G

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May 17, 2023

Overwhelming amount of information and unnecessarily specific questions in quizzes. There are better ways to learn this.

By Maco L

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Feb 7, 2023

Due to the fact that setting up a IBM cloud account is extremlemy frustrating this is the worst part of the course.

By Dominic D S

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Mar 23, 2023

2nd course with such a mess activating IBM Cloud account .. i will not do any IBM courses from now on.

By Rae R

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Mar 22, 2024

I want to withdraw from this and the IBM Full Stack Certificate. Why is this so hard?

By Mohd J H

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Oct 18, 2022

Would prefer a live instructor instead of a generic AI voice reading PPTs.

By Ahmad S

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Jan 10, 2024

This course was very boring because there were no practical applications

By Eoin M

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Dec 17, 2023

Essentially just lots of corporate jargon. No real practical experience

By ashish k

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Dec 16, 2022

Got a 0 on a graded assignment how is that possible? Need to fix this.

By Daniel R

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Nov 11, 2023

Mucha teoría y publicidad. A lot of theory and advertising

By Rishi K

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Jan 24, 2024

proffestionl certication download not showing

By Deleted A

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Apr 9, 2023

unable to unenroll got enrolled by mistake