What a Cloud Guru can show you about AWS

Yesterday at the AWS South Wales User Group Ryan Kroonenburg, Co-Founder of A Cloud Guru, performed a talk. The talk explained what the platform was as well as how A Cloud Guru use serverless technology.
Ryan discussed A Cloud Guru as being a platform that provides a ‘social online learning experience’ that already provides AWS certification training for over 50,000 students. He noted that It was built from ground up in just 20 days, using: AWS Lambda, API Gateway and a serverless architecture. The platform currently offers training in a broad range of areas, including:
- Chef
- iOS with AWS
- Big data
- Security
- AWS for Windows administrator
- Dynamodb
- Elastic Beanstalk
- The beginner’s guide to Alexa
Ryan continued by analyzing the content that was brought to users of the A Cloud Guru platform. He stated:
Each training scheme can be 12 hours in length and it only costs us 10c (US Dollars) to deliver that to a user… We’re being really disruptive in the education industry.
Ryan closed off his talk by mentioning that A Cloud Guru are always looking for people to join their team and create content for their platform. He promised:
- 50% of revenue share for content on the platform.
- A steady passive income.
- Industry recognition.
Ryan suggested that if people were interested in creating content for the platform to email: Nicole@acloud.guru