Cloud courses
Running other people's infrastructure: administration, platform engineering and keeping an application up.
6 free cloud courses, each ending in a live simulation week and a portfolio of artifacts you keep.
Azure Cloud Administrator
Run a firm's Azure estate for a week: cut access back to least privilege, stop a bill that budgets only warn about, store seven years of records at the right tier and redundancy, close an open RDP port, and prove backups restore.
20 lessons·4 artifacts·Pairs with Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
Junior Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)
Keep a real service healthy on Kubernetes through its busiest weeks: diagnose a failed rollout and roll back cleanly, size memory from evidence, set health checks that make deployments smooth, grant least-privilege access and handle a leaked secret, and keep the service up through node maintenance.
21 lessons·4 artifacts·Pairs with CNCF Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Resilient Hosting: One App, Many Providers
Keep three systems up across providers for eight days: map single points of failure, survive a results-day spike, fail a hospital database over and back without losing prescriptions, recover from a bad migration, keep government data in-country, and drill the switch.
20 lessons·4 artifacts
Cloud Practitioner & Cloud Support
Learn to do the cloud support job: read a bill and explain why it moved, work out why a resource will not start, answer a shared responsibility question honestly, and run a small deployment with a rollback plan.
29 lessons·5 artifacts·Pairs with AWS Cloud Practitioner (or Azure AZ-900)
DevOps Foundations (CI/CD, Docker)
Build and ship software the way a platform team does: version control discipline, a pipeline you can explain, containers that build the same everywhere, and deploys you can roll back. You leave with a commented pipeline, a container setup, a runbook, an incident timeline and a hardening checklist.
30 lessons·6 artifacts
Linux & Site Reliability Foundations
Learn to keep a Linux service up: read a machine under load, choose what to measure, define an objective you can defend, take a page at 3am without making it worse, and write the postmortem that stops it happening again.
29 lessons·7 artifacts·Pairs with CompTIA Linux+ then RHCSA
Questions about cloud courses
Yes. Every course on CertClue is free, with no card and no trial period. You need an account to track progress and collect your artifacts, and that is the only gate.
6 live right now, holding 149 lessons and 30 portfolio artifacts between them. New courses are added regularly and appear here automatically.
No. Each course states its own level, and most of this catalogue starts at entry or beginner. A course assumes you can use a computer and read carefully, not that you have done the job before.
A completion certificate with a public verification link, and the artifacts you produced during the simulation week. The artifacts are the part worth showing an interviewer: they are the work, not a score.