Are you a cloud architect or a solution architect, and you're wondering which cloud to learn?
If so, this video is for you.
Hi, my name is Michael Gibbs, and I'm the founder and CEO of go cloud careers.
And we're an organization that's dedicated towards building high performance, cloud computing
and networking careers. Personally, I've been working with technology for over 25 years.
And I've been helping others get their first tech job or get promoted in tech for two decades. And
it's my absolute favorite thing in the world when one of my students calls me and says, Guess what,
Mike, I just got caught hired. Today, we're going to talk about which cloud I should learn.
And this is a question I get constantly from Cloud architects and solution architects. And for good
reason. There's a lot of good clouds out there customers are demanding hybrid clouds and multi
cloud. So the question of which cloud I should learn becomes really, really important. So in
this video, we're going to discuss which cloud you should learn which certifications you should get,
and how to make learning the cloud simple. So to begin, let's talk about which cloud should
I learn. And here's the key, all of them. What I mean by all of them. The reality is customers want
diversity in their cloud, they want to know that if AWS goes down Azure still up, or if Azure goes
down, Google still up. That's why we need to know all of the clouds. So which cloud should you learn
all of them. Now, that's going to sound complicated, but it does not have to be, in fact,
it's going to be so easy to learn all the clouds and become a great cloud architect or solution
architect, we're going to show you how. But the point is, is you must know that cloud, not all of
the clouds. So let's think about how you can learn that cloud, and not each cloud independently.
We all learn to drive right? We're learning to drive a car, they have a steering wheel,
a key gear shift, etc. All cars have them. So if we truly understand that car, and how to drive,
it doesn't matter whether it's a Mercedes, a BMW, a Honda, Toyota, Hyundai, they're all great cars,
and we can all drive them by learning to drive. So let's talk about how to learn all the clouds.
Learn the infrastructure. So let's look at it this way. What do we do as cloud architects
and a solution architects, we basically solve customers problems with technology. And how do
we do that? Mostly, we take the infrastructure from the network in the datacenter, we move it
to the cloud. So if you learn the network in the data center, you know all clouds,
give us some examples. So in networking and data center world, we've been using virtualized
servers or server virtualization for two decades now. And guess what server virtualization is
what makes cloud computing possible. So in the datacenter, we were using VMware ESXi,
or KVM, or QM you on Linux. Now, guess what, we go to the cloud and AWS has their virtual machine
called Elastic Compute Cloud. Google has their virtual machines called Compute Engine instances.
And Azure has their virtual machines called nothing other than an Azure virtual machine.
So see, this is the same networking and data center tech going to the cloud.
Now let's talk about storage. Because in the data center, we have storage, and we have to move that
storage to the cloud. Once in a while the clouds, here's how you do it, learn object storage, learn
how object storage work, learn how to utilize the metadata, learn what a use cases are. And then
whether it's AWS s3, Google Cloud Storage, or Microsoft, Bob, guess what, it's the same object
storage we've been using for decades. So not a big deal. How about block storage. In the data center,
we have the storage area networks with block storage. And in the cloud, they do too,
because block storage can look and feel like a regular hard drive, even though it is not.
So that's what we use to function as a pseudo hard drive in our cloud computing virtual machine
environment. So let's look at it, we will go to AWS they call it elastic boxers. But if we
go to Google, they call it a persistent disk. And if we go to Azure, they call it im Azure
manage this. But guess what? It's this same. So going back to our audits of learning to drive,
learn the technology, and you'll be in good shape. Let's talk about some other infrastructure. We use
load balancers. For example, if it's an f5 load balancer in the data center, or an elastic load
balancer in AWS, or a Cloud load balancer and Google or an Azure Load Balancer, guess what?
They're functionally equivalent. So learn what is a load balancer? And what is the network load
balancer, an application load balancer, and you know, all the clouds? I'll give
you one more that's not from the hardware side, because people like to say, Mike,
you just love to talk about the network in the data center. So let's talk about databases.
There are lots of relational databases, and they've been around for decades.
And whether we're using an Oracle database in the data center, or my SQL on the data center,
or the cloud, guess what, it's still a database, but let's look at some cloud managed databases.
Whether it be on Google, they call it Cloud SQL, whether it's on Amazon, Aurora, or whether it's
on the Azure database for MySQL, guess what? It's Just a managed relational database. And they're
so functionally similar and equivalent. Same thing with managed no SQL databases, whether
it is Cloud Bigtable, on Google, Amazon Dynamo DB, or Azure Cosmos dB, it's a fully managed no
SQL database. So learn that cloud, not the name of a vendor service and how to configure it. If
you're an architect, you're going to be designing systems and taking the systems from the network
in the data center and move them to the cloud. So we can't do our job anyway, if we don't know
the network in the data center, because how do we move things that we don't understand? So instead
of making this complicated, just learn the network in the data center, and then you know the cloud,
learn how these services function, intimate depth, how they work, why they work and how it benefits
the organization, and presto, your multi cloud architecting? You know exactly what to do. Now,
the next question becomes is, which certification should I get? Well, the answer to this is, it
really depends. And we get certifications, because we want to be able to have something on our resume
that can help us get the interview. Now, certifications won't get us hired for any job.
And we'll make that clear. Again, certifications will not get you hired, but they will get you an
interview, and without the interviewer not getting hired. So they are a critical piece to
the equation. So which certification should you get? For most people, they should get the Azure
solutions architect expert, or the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, why these two
cloud providers own the majority of the market share. And if you're brand new, it's because it's
good to get something that's more ubiquitous, that covers the greater end of the spectrum. Now,
if you've been around for a long time, you might want to do the Google professional
cloud architect, I did. And I love it, I think it's a great certification. That's the only one
that includes a little bit about architecture, not a lot. But of the three is the only one
that includes a little bit about architecture by giving you architectural case studies, and then
actually asking design. So it's not that I don't love the Google professional cloud architect,
I think it is a fantastic certification. But if you're new to technology, and you're trying to
plead your case, to a hiring manager, that you're good and competent when you lack experience,
you want a lot more hiring managers, because not every hiring manager is willing to hire
without experience. And our experience is about one in three if they like someone and love them,
even if they have no experience, they're willing to hire them if they're the perfect candidate.
So we need more people when you're new. So we recommend the Azure solutions architect expert,
or the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional as your cloud certification,
especially if you're coming from the beginning. So what are we talking about today? Learn the
cloud the same way you learn to drive you get in a car, you learn what is the steering wheel,
you learn? What is the key you learn? What are the accelerator, what is the brake, the turn signals,
etc, wherever that you can drive any car. Now, if you tried to learn the car and say this is
an elastic, rotational directional, chainer, changer, and somebody else called it, the cloud,
directional rotational vector device, it's going to be really hard for you to understand this. But
if you just learned that it's a steering wheel, and think of it as a steering wheel in all cars,
you're always going to know how to drive and you're going to be great at it. So
learn that cloud, not the name of a vendor service and how to configure them. Once you know what the
technology is, you can easily map it to a vendor service. And you'll always know what to design,
you'll give your customers the best solution. And you'll have the best career because guess what,
you'll be a multi cloud architect, this is Michael Gibbs. I'm the founder and CEO of go
cloud architects and go cloud careers, helping you build your best cloud architecture Solutions
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