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Cloud Computing

Designing and running workloads on cloud platforms.

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Core subjects

Subjects you actually study in Cloud — with notes, PDFs and video links.

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Learning roadmap

Phase by phase, with a resource link on every step.

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Phase 1 — Foundations
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Phase 2 — Core subjects
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Phase 3 — Specialise
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Phase 4 — Job ready

Technical skills

Cloud architecture design
IAM policy design
Networking (VPC, DNS, load balancing)
Serverless development
Cost optimisation
Migration planning

Programming skills

PythonBashHCL (Terraform)YAML / JSONSQL

Tools & technologies

AWS / Azure / GCP consolesTerraformCloudFormation / BicepCloudWatch / Azure MonitorDockerCost explorer tooling

Mini projects

Short, buildable projects to start with.

  • Static site on object storage with CDN
  • Serverless API with a managed database
  • Auto-scaling group behind a load balancer
  • IAM policy audit of a sample account

Major projects

Final-year scale projects that stand out in interviews.

  • Highly available three-tier application
  • Serverless data-processing pipeline
  • Hybrid migration plan for a legacy app
  • Disaster recovery design with tested failover

Career paths

  • • Cloud engineering
  • • Solution architecture
  • • Cloud security
  • • Infrastructure operations
  • • FinOps

Job roles

  • • Cloud Engineer
  • • Solutions Architect
  • • Cloud Security Analyst
  • • Infrastructure Engineer
  • • FinOps Analyst

Government & PSU opportunities

Exams and organisations that recruit from this branch.

  • MeghRaj (GI Cloud) projects
  • NIC cloud teams
  • PSU cloud migration programmes
  • Defence and space cloud infrastructure roles

Higher studies

  • • MTech / MS in cloud or distributed systems
  • • Professional-level cloud certifications
  • • Security masters programmes

Certifications

  • • AWS Solutions Architect (Associate → Professional)
  • • Azure Administrator AZ-104
  • • Google Associate Cloud Engineer
  • • CCSP (security)

Industry-relevant technologies

What companies in this field are actively working on.

Multi-cloud and sovereign cloudServerless-first architectureConfidential computingAI workloads on cloud GPUsFinOps automation

Cloud career updates

Domains hiring from this branch and the skills each one expects.

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