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The contract for A Cloud Guru, now Pluralsight, has transferred to the Communication and Documentation Team. Please reach out to them with any questions.

The below information is maintained for historical purposes only.

The Cloud Team maintains a contract with A Cloud Guru for training on cloud technologies, DevOps, and related topics. Cornell staff and faculty are invited to request access to a seat for training. Many Cornell folks have found this to be an effective way to learn new technologies.

Training Topics

A Cloud Guru offers 1,200 hours of all-you-can-eat video content as well as labs to get hands-on training. Major training categories include:

Cloud Providers
- AWS
- Azure
- Google Cloud Platform
Linux
DevOps
Containers
OpenStack
BigData

ACG also offers training specifically designed to help you achieve various certificates (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect).

Training Seats

Since December 2017, Cornell has maintained a license for 40 training seats that we rotate amongst Cornell faculty and staff. Our policy regarding training seats:

Once you have a seat, our policy is to ensure you have at least 3 months with it.
After 3 months, we may need to rotate you out of your seat so someone else can use it.
When rotating seats, we will prioritize by the date that each person last used Linux Academy.
If you keep active on Linux Academy, your chances of being rotated out will be reduced.
If necessary, we may add you to a waiting list for initial access to a seat.
Depending on demand, we may need to reduce the 3-month period.

We recommend that you take advantage of the free 7-day trial ACG offers to individual users to see if you think ACG will fit your learning style. If so, then request a seat from us.

To request a seat, please complete the form linked to on this page: https://it.cornell.edu/training/cloud-guru-free-online-training

Questions?

Email cloud-support@cornell.edu.