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ACG employee here so grain of salt, etc - but I paid for an ACG subscription long before I worked there. My favorite piece of ACG actually isn't even the cours
by forrestbrazeal 6y ago
ACG employee here so grain of salt, etc - but I paid for an ACG subscription long before I worked there.
My favorite piece of ACG actually isn't even the courses, but "Cloud Playground", which came over in the recent Linux Academy acquisition. [0] One-click AWS, Azure, or GCP sandbox environments. They're live for 4 hours on ACG's credit card and people sometimes assume they're just for doing course labs, but, like, you can use them for whatever. It's an end run around sandbox account procurement in a business context, or a safeguard against leaving an expensive resource running for personal experimentation.
[0] https://help.acloud.guru/hc/en-us/articles/360001477955-Cloud-Playground-FAQ https://help.acloud.guru/hc/en-us/articles/360001477955-Clou...
- count 6y agoLicensing and selling the 'don't cost us a million bucks in 4 hours' code monitoring (I hope!) that stuff on the backside would be welcomed by maaaaany large organizations :)
- atwebb 6y agoYep, I love that feature and they provide a grandfather / lock in policy for accounts. It isn't a perfect platform but the breadth and centralization has been great and the communication following the acquisition has been good. It is well worth the cost of entry. The demos are valuable as well since they start you with certain infrastructure and you can focus on the drill/demo. I would love to see some of the Terraform/Cloudformation templates that go into these products...