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A Cloud Guru vs PerfectScale comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

A Cloud Guru
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
16
Ranking in other categories
Virtual Training (1st), eLearning (2nd)
PerfectScale
Average Rating
9.4
Reviews Sentiment
1.7
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Cost Management (25th)
 

Mindshare comparison

A Cloud Guru and PerfectScale aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. A Cloud Guru is designed for Virtual Training and holds a mindshare of 13.9%, down 26.5% compared to last year.
PerfectScale, on the other hand, focuses on Cloud Cost Management, holds 1.3% mindshare, up 0.2% since last year.
Virtual Training Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
A Cloud Guru13.9%
Pluralsight25.5%
LinkedIn Learning11.2%
Other49.400000000000006%
Virtual Training
Cloud Cost Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
PerfectScale1.3%
IBM Turbonomic5.9%
Cloudability5.9%
Other86.9%
Cloud Cost Management
 

Featured Reviews

Upendra Kanuru - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud DevSecOps Engineer at USAA
Focuses on practical skills for cloud and DevOps learners
A few improvements I can think of for A Cloud Guru would involve moving beyond the traditional installation approach to a hands-on experience within terminals. Furthermore, I believe the technology space is shifting towards AI chatbots, so incorporating training on effectively using chatbots for information retrieval would be beneficial. Instead of just providing a help note, offering prompts that assist in learning and solving coding exercises could greatly improve the learning process, as many of us now use chatbots to obtain detailed answers to advance our development. Regarding pricing, I suggest A Cloud Guru could be more competitive. I compare it with other educational platforms, some of which offer corporate discounts, and I notice that many companies opt for those, while the organizations I have worked for have not utilized an A Cloud Guru corporate account, which presents a challenge. I am unsure about the marketing aspects, but other platforms I see have corporate versions, and I can create an account, which I have not seen as an option here. Given that these courses are very specific and tailored to cloud, I assume the pricing might be somewhat higher, which could make it challenging for every company to invest in them.
reviewer2750058 - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps & FinOps Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Gain visibility into Kubernetes clusters and optimize resource allocation based on historical data
I think they should focus more on Kubernetes features that allow on-the-fly resource allocation without the need to restart services. They should implement this in their autoscaler to make it more useful in scenarios that require immediate scaling up or down. They should also offer more options for visualizing graphs in different ways, such as tabular views.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The hands-on labs are really helpful."
"A Cloud Guru has made an impact overall by providing the cloud labs, which help, under its registration, to learn each AWS service with hands-on modules and demos."
"The solution's lab feature is good and offers hands-on experience. It is easily accessible."
"The content is engaging."
"The solution's most valuable feature is the hands-on experience it provides through very good labs."
"A Cloud Guru has labs; we don't have to create them. It helps to be trained on multiple topics."
"A Cloud Guru offers courses for any industry. It is a user-friendly platform that offers courses in Excel, Python, C#, and more."
"It has streamlined my knowledge of cloud migration strategies, particularly in managing public and private cloud environments and hybrid setups."
"Automated resource optimization using different policies based on the environment enabled the organization to achieve infrastructure cost savings."
"The cluster and workload autoscaler gives us the ability to have control over all the workloads' resources instead of managing them one by one."
"Automated resource optimization using different policies based on the environment enabled the organization to achieve infrastructure cost savings."
"PerfectScale made our Kubernetes optimization effortless; it found wasted resources, lowered our cloud costs, and improved performance almost instantly."
 

Cons

"A Cloud Guru should incorporate fewer updates."
"There could be some performance improvements."
"Sometimes it gets stuck or takes time to execute; if that could be sped up, that would be the only improvement needed."
"As people's maturity increases, there are areas that can be improved in terms of the learning paths."
"A Cloud Guru's videos are not effective for knowledge transfer."
"It'd be nice if there were a way to go through all the different exam tips more easily."
"Most of the tutorial contents in A Cloud Guru are very lengthy."
"Instead of covering a broad section of the exam and then offering labs, it would be better to provide targeted exercises right after the relevant lecture, such as creating an EC2 instance."
"At the beginning, the support was not very impressive."
"With their in-place optimisations, stateful set optimisation would be a great addition."
"I think they should focus more on Kubernetes features that allow on-the-fly resource allocation without the need to restart services."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is not expensive."
"The pricing is good compared to other premium e-learning platforms."
"The solution's cloud content is expensive. Compared to other vendors, it is expensive."
"I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten."
"You need an annual license to use the platform. Its pricing is fine—good knowledge comes at a price—and doesn't include any extra costs."
"A Cloud Guru is more expensive than other options on the market."
"The solution’s pricing is moderate."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Construction Company
11%
Computer Software Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Insurance Company
33%
Construction Company
28%
Healthcare Company
6%
Comms Service Provider
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise10
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for A Cloud Guru?
I would want to get the current costing for personal use if I want to opt for A Cloud Guru courses and modules.
What needs improvement with A Cloud Guru?
A few improvements I can think of for A Cloud Guru would involve moving beyond the traditional installation approach to a hands-on experience within terminals. Furthermore, I believe the technology...
What is your primary use case for A Cloud Guru?
My use cases primarily involve working as a Cloud DevOps Engineer, and I use A Cloud Guru for GCP, Google Cloud Practitioner, data engineering certification, and I currently have my AWS Cloud Pract...
What needs improvement with PerfectScale?
With their in-place optimisations, stateful set optimisation would be a great addition.
 

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