A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) vs. Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMS

A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)

Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMS

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brothers Sam and Ryan Kroonenburg who recognized cloud learning through traditional training providers was expensive, outdated, and a pain to consume.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
Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMS	Score 8.3 out of 10	N/A	Grovo's product included instructional videos and assessments, and the SaaS platform that they live on top of. The videos follow a microlearning methodology which increases learner retention. Grovo is now fully integrated into CornerStone's LMS.	$149 per month

Pricing

A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)

Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMS

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)

Light Academy: $149.00
per month
Professional Academy: $249.00
per month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)	Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMS
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
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

Consulting and integration services are part of the product, not an additional feature.

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)	Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMS
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?	Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMS Verified User Anonymous Chose Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMS The platform is more stable than competing LMS providers. Also, Cornerstone is a big brand name within LMS. Grovo definitely is among the top 3 LMS players in the small-scale industry space. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMS Grovo is a top-notch training module that has helped our company step it up! We have created a number of trainings at the ease of a quick overview of the software and a point and click mentality. We love the tracking feature which I don't believe Brainshark had when we used … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMS Previously we were using Blackboard and an inhouse solution. Both of these took many hours to get ready for new training objectives and provided mediocre employe skill retention. Grovo reduced the overhead for training and has produced better results regarding employee skill … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMS Other services I have used (I can't even remember their names) have been launchable only through Internet Explorer and buggy, if a question is answered errantly and an employee tries to go back, the entire platform crashes Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMS Grovo is a more convenient and quick option. It works for our company because it provides more flexibility and is easier to just jump in and use when needed. The range of topics are also more practical, and in my opinion, more relevant to a much wider range of jobs, from entry … Incentivized Helpful? Ricky Skawinski, Jr. Loss Prevention Analyst Chose Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMS The elephant in the room for me, would be TreeHouse. Grovo is very similar to TreeHouse in the fact that they're both programs with lesson tracks, simple and short videos, as well as progress trackers. I would have to say that I enjoyed learning coding on TreeHouse over Grovo, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMS Grovo had the best content, cleanest looking website and most affordable pricing for our purposes. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)

Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMS

Learning Management

Comparison of Learning Management features of Product A and Product B
	A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) - Ratings	Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMS 7.6 Ratings 11% below category average
Course authoring	00 Ratings	8.30 Ratings
Course catalog or library	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Player/Portal	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Learning content	00 Ratings	6.60 Ratings
Progress tracking & certifications	00 Ratings	8.30 Ratings
Learning reporting & analytics	00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Social learning	00 Ratings	5.00 Ratings

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User Ratings
	A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)	Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMS
Likelihood to Recommend	9.9 (0 ratings)	8.3 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (0 ratings)	8.3 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)	Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMS
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	Grovo's current catalog is vast enough for most business looking to expand their library of online learning content. This allows team leaders to easily curate content for their team using a curriculum or playlist structure. Grovo also allows novice eLearning designers to create their own content quickly using their design tool. Making Grovo a multifaceted tool to decentralize content creation and curation. Incentivized Jamie Drahos Senior Learning Solution Analyst 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	Ease of Use. The site is awesome for searching for a specific topic. Convenience. Lessons are generally very quick and easy to fit into even the busiest schedules. Interface. The website is gorgeous and inviting. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous 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	It can be difficult for any e-learning service not to seem mechanical in nature when it comes to the average employee performing learning tasks Many of the "problems" that grovo might seem to display would actually be a function of the organization implementing them 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	When we have had issues with Grovo not working or a problem with report we have always gotten an answer quickly. We have a rep that we speak to often to make sure we are satisfied with the system and is just a quick email away. It nice to know we have support that will get back to you in a quick manner as we rely on this software. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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	Previously we were using Blackboard and an inhouse solution. Both of these took many hours to get ready for new training objectives and provided mediocre employe skill retention. Grovo reduced the overhead for training and has produced better results regarding employee skill retention. We selected Grovo because it was a better solution, it was easier and provided a better result Incentivized Verified User Anonymous 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	Positive - allowed us to provide top-notch training to our employees. Positive - allows every employee to look through past trainings if they need a reminder. Positive - allows us to track when the trainings are being completed. Positive - ability to create trainings quickly and easily. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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