A Cloud Guru is now part of Pluralsight
Your favorite ACG content, labs, and sandboxes are now under one roof.
Trusted by over 4,000 brands
Why get certified?
There's gold in them skills
Astronaut. Waterslide tester. Whatever Leonardo DiCaprio’s job is in Inception. There are loads of cool things you could learn to do. Why get certified and learn new cloud skills?
Skilled cloud talent is in crazy high demand, the pay and perks are awesome, and it's a near future-proof career path.
Average cloud engineer base salary in the US
Source: Indeed, 2023
One of the most in-demand hard skills year over year—and no sign of a slowdown
Source: State of Upskilling
Average raise received by IT pros who gained new skills and/or certifications.
Source: Global Knowledge, 2020
Why Pluralsight?
King of the skill
Anyone can learn cloud with Pluralsight.
Learn by doing at any level, whether your tech experience has peaked with email or you’re a senior IT engineer who’s been neck-deep in it since the Commodore 64.
I’m currently earning 10 times what I was earning last year, all due to me being AWS certified through A Cloud Guru (now part of Pluralsight).”
Winston S.
DevOps Engineer (and former retail worker)
84%
of learners report improved job performance with A Cloud Guru (now part of Pluralsight)
95%
of users say our tools and content directly helped in their careers
100+ certs
Pluralsight offers more than 100 cloud certification courses in AWS, GCP, and Azure
Certifiably awesome
With the world’s largest hands-on content library for cloud skills development at your fingertips, you can master new skills, get cloud certified, and advance your career.
Build skills your way
Ninja Warrior your way up the cloud ladder or go bit by bit. Our self-paced learning works on your schedule, so you can binge your way to a better career, or do it 15 minutes at a time.
Cloud habitable for humans
Our dedicated instructors go to ridiculous lengths to create and update fresh content packed with personality, built on proven learning techniques and infused with wit.
Learn by doing
Get your hands cloudy
You have to walk before you run. But you’ll have a hard time going anywhere just sitting there watching videos. That’s why we make learning interactive.
Our proven learn-by-doing approach makes you an active participant with hands-on tools that are hands down the best way to pick up (and retain) new knowledge.
Hands-on Playground
Learn by doing with live AWS, Azure, and GCP sandboxes. Cloud along with courses, test ideas, and prep for exams.
Practice exams
Pass on the first try. Prep for certifications with practice exams that mimic the real thing. And get personalized pointers on how to improve.
Hands-on labs
Learn new skills faster and get your hands cloudy with thousands of real, guided labs on all things cloud from novice to guru.
This will teach you
The platform for modern tech skills
With hundreds of courses and thousands of labs, we give you plenty of room to roam. Whether you’re accelerating your own career or skilling up teams, you can go as broad or as deep as you need, and then some.
We offer full certification training and technical deep dives for Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and more. What would you like to learn?
ACG is an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner and has trained 2 million on AWS.
Our Microsoft MVP-led team provides training perfect for beginners or advanced Azure users.
Our training covers in-demand certs and deep dives into areas like Machine Learning and Kubernetes.
ACG offers 1,400+ hours of Linux learning, including certification training and how-to guides.