A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) vs. edX for Business

A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)

edX for Business

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	A Cloud Guru (ACG) is a cloud learning provider that states they have helped 2,000,000+ people and more than 4,000 organizations level up their cloud skills. Founded in 2015, ACG was started by brothers Sam and Ryan Kroonenburg who recognized cloud learning through traditional training providers was expensive, outdated, and a pain to consume. With the acquisition of Linux Academy in 2019, ACG combined the strengths and benefits of both companies to create A Cloud Guru…	$0 per month
edX for Business	Score 9.3 out of 10	N/A	edX headquartered in Cambridge provides elearning content covering a wide range of courses, including edX for Business, an on-demand elearning platform for upskilling, reskilling, and general workforce training.	$349 per learner/per year

Pricing

A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)

edX for Business

Editions & Modules

Free: $0.00
per month
Personal Basic: $31.59 ($379.00)
per month (per year)
Personal Plus: $41.59 ($499.00)
per month (per year)
Business Basic: $41.59 ($499.00)
per month (per year)
Business Plus: $58.25 ($699.00)
per month (per year)

For Groups: $349.00
per learner/per year
For Enterprise: Contact sales team

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)	edX for Business
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

Contact Sales for Enterprise Pricing. https://acloudguru.com/solutions/business

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Community Pulse
	A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)	edX for Business
Considered Both Products	A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) Garner Albright Mobile Service Tech Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) For me, A Cloud Guru was the best platform for learning and retaining what I've learned. I really enjoyed taking courses at A Cloud Guru. Other platforms where too slow, or seemed to be trying too hard, and I never felt like I was learning much compared to A Cloud Guru. Incentivized Helpful? Jan Daniel Sulaiman Product Manager IoT Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) We have not evaluated any other providers besides ACG as the original offer we got quite a few years ago was so nicely matching and working for us. Therefore we did not have any requirements to look at any other providers besides ACG. Commercially we have not yet seen any … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) A Cloud Guru is better focused on cloud-native technologies. Incentivized Helpful? Mark Nowowiejski Sr. Instructional Designer Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) WE have tried taking free training courses directly from Amazon but their LMS is difficult to naviate and the video are not engaging. Pracitce Exams are too easy vs the actual exams. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) The main differentiator was the contents as we were interested in a cloud platform other similar platforms did not have the below: it is very good to establish cloud learning development plans and then track them and manage them for the team. The platform supports learning … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) We did POC with three companies [including Pluralsight Skills] and selected A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy). Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) I have used both A Cloud Guru and Udemy for business and I feel A Cloud Guru does a better job. With Udemy you have to purchase your modules. With A Cloud Guru you get everything in one place. This work[s] better for me as I can move from one certification to the next. Incentivized Helpful? LQ Leo Quiroa Machine Learning Engineer Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) Compared to O'Reilly in general, the ACG [A Cloud Guru] content is more specific to AWS and with more examples and real-world use cases. O'Reilly is broader in terms of technologies you can learn, but none of them go deep into the details. Another thing is that O'Reilly focuses … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) Cantrill.io gives far more content and lab work to build skills within the certification boundaries. If there was a similar vendor for both Azure and Google, we would have considered going with targeted vendor training vs a generalized provider. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) Course choice is much smaller than Udemy but the quality feels a lot higher. There's accountability for them being accurate and you can see them being regularly updated. The labs and playgrounds are really useful for getting to grips with technical concepts. I think the … Incentivized Helpful? Sagar Dhanrale Director, Technical Enablement , Global Customer Success Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) We compared A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) with Cloud Academy and Udemy for Business. The content for A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) was much more engaging and interactive. Cost was on par with Cloud Academy. Incentivized Helpful? Jeff Oster Senior Cloud Engineer Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) We have tried LinkedIn learning but there are a lot of older courses and not too many for the IT Pro. I think it is great for management and soft skills, but nowhere near the depth of A Cloud Guru. I know for my team, we like the many different and up to date courses for a vast … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) was the only platform we evaluated for the vast majority of our cloud training, however we have found other providers are better in certain areas and use them to supplement A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy). For example, TutorialsDojo and WhizLabs both … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) Udemy has a wider and broader range of topics for your users to browse and choose from whereas A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) has more finely tuned or a more carefully selected and curated range of videos and courses for your users to browse and choose from. I think each one has … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) I don't know any alternatives to A Cloud Guru. There is a LOT of videos around the web for training ourselves to cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP), but none of them are proving us private access to a real cloud platform for practicing during the training. Who else provides … Incentivized Helpful? GA Gerardo Aldecua XaaS Coordinator Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) We have tested Udemy and Coursera, but (specifically), in terms of cloud technology, we prefer ACG. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) Have not used any others. A Cloud Guru is the original and leader in this field. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) ACG has more focused and relevant content to meet the needs of the business Incentivized Helpful? Abdulrazzaq Alkhateeb Snr Manager, Professional Services. Head of Delivery, APJ Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) ACG contents are more relevant to the future of technology and a bit more advanced. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) A Cloud Guru provided better freshness of content and was priced more competitively than other cloud training platforms. A Cloud Guru also had training paths that other providers did not have on their platform. I also enjoyed the fact that there are reports that you can run on … Incentivized Helpful?	edX for Business Verified User Anonymous Chose edX for Business The only other professional learning we have used is to hire an educator and have a live zoom meeting which is essentially what edX for Business provides on an on-demand format. This is our first program and so far enjoying the transition. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose edX for Business edX for Business seemed to be quite similiar to other competitors in terms of methodology and formats. In our case, courses themes availability were very important, because the challenge was to find relevant content to support pre-defined learning tracks. We found most of them … Incentivized Helpful? HM Shuja Producer Chose edX for Business The very strong point of edX is that it is so much professional and it is specialized in organizational training and upskilling. It is one of the reasons why edX is a bit ahead of other e-learning platforms. Incentivized Helpful? Gabrielle Wayman eBusiness Product Owner Chose edX for Business Coursera is another great platform. They are pretty comparable functionally. We chose EdX initially because of specific content that was requested for training. However, we also have users on Coursera because of specific content that’s only on that platform. The best advice I … Incentivized Helpful? Alvaro Jose Torres Angel Environmental Engineer Chose edX for Business Stack up: Edx organizations and universities are highly renamed, with frequent updates or the addition of courses with similar topics- The topics used in the courses and programs are well developed and focused in nowadays world necessities which makes the professional who takes … Incentivized Helpful? Shubham Chauhan Team Lead Chose edX for Business With the exception of graded assignments and certification, edx has validated certificated courses that are credible in the market. It also offers a free course audit option. The best reason to try edx is probably their 14-day return policy; with all these beneficial points, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose edX for Business It offers better depth of the courses. The enterprise feature such as sso takes an edge. it has an upper hand in the depth and coverage of material. It is better suited for strategic learning and development program. The credential value is also very high of the courses … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)

edX for Business

Learning Management

Comparison of Learning Management features of Product A and Product B
	A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) - Ratings	edX for Business 8.1 Ratings 5% below category average
Course authoring	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Course catalog or library	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Player/Portal	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Learning content	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Progress tracking & certifications	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Learning reporting & analytics	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Social learning	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Gamification	00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings

eLearning Content

Comparison of eLearning Content features of Product A and Product B
	A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) - Ratings	edX for Business 8.2 Ratings 3% below category average
Structured Learning	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Course Searches	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Historical Metrics	00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Cloud-Based Content	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Automation & Integration	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings

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User Ratings
	A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)	edX for Business
Likelihood to Recommend	9.9 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	6.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)	edX for Business
Likelihood to Recommend	If your organization is technical-based and offers its employees different online courses to enhance their knowledge, then A Cloud Guru will be perfect for you. There are multiple courses available from different cloud platforms. The platform is easy to use and navigate and does not require much knowledge. Even if you do not have basic technical knowledge, the courses available in A Cloud Guru are designed in such a manner that a non-technical person will understand the concept easily. Incentivized Swarup Sangale Strategic Partner Management Senior Analyst Read full review	I certainly reccomend edX for Business to support learning projects that demand specific knowledge contents. These online courses are complete and engaging, and they can be used to support different learning needs inside a company. It is flexible because anyone can complete it on its own pace and using different devices. I believe it is appropriate to big companies, because pricing may be an issue in some countries (it is expensive in Brazil). Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	The team at A Cloud Guru is excellent at responding to user feedback that is submitted through their website. The content created is well organized and aligns to certification paths. The content is accessible on mobile and web platforms, which is great for learning on the go. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Provides certification after completion of course Provides eLearning from home They have a broad variety of courses for all business owners Incentivized Rehan Kanuga Data Analyst Read full review
Cons	More material on other cloud providers GCP, Azure, Huawei. Extend the sandboxes to other cloud providers not only AWS. Include more material for non-technical people, sometimes the sales teams are completely lost in the platform but they would like to learn about it. Incentivized LQ Leo Quiroa Machine Learning Engineer Read full review	They should add more topics because alternative learning apps/tools have a very broad range. Structures of courses are not aligned in a manner. Streaming problem. Incentivized Shubham Chauhan Team Lead Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	It is an excellent tool for remote setup team. The universities are well respected, and the course depth adds a lot of value. The upskilling has become convenient. Progress can be tracked easily, and it offers customized corporate training needs fulfilled. The compliance training courses are helpful in particular as they meet growing demand. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	The support team of A Cloud Guru is quite quick. There are scenarios where A Cloud Guru was not working in my organization. We reached out to their support team and they quickly resolved the issue. Also, if any individual is facing issues accessing A Cloud Guru, their support team is quick to resolve the issue. Incentivized Swarup Sangale Strategic Partner Management Senior Analyst Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	The main differentiator was the contents as we were interested in a cloud platform other similar platforms did not have the below: it is very good to establish cloud learning development plans and then track them and manage them for the team. The platform supports learning tracks, exams, and sandboxes with all major cloud providers guarantees that you don't get an accidental charge as a result of [the] testing and exploring the cloud Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	With the exception of graded assignments and certification, edx has validated certificated courses that are credible in the market. It also offers a free course audit option. The best reason to try edx is probably their 14-day return policy; with all these beneficial points, edx is acing the learning market at this moment. Incentivized Shubham Chauhan Team Lead Read full review
Return on Investment	Engagement scores around investment in L&D have increased. There's excitement around upcoming changes to our technology instead of fear we have seen in the past. We feel confident we will be able to deliver these new technologies - although we are at the start of our journey. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Improved morale for fulfilling training and certification requests Team members readied for big transformation projects ahead of time Reduced cost to develop in-house analytics dashboards and reporting Incentivized Gabrielle Wayman eBusiness Product Owner Read full review
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