Ok, woah there Will Robinson!
Why?
Is it because it’s new, and sexy, and shiny, and the in thing? Or just because thats where all the money is? All of which are true, but….
If you are wanting to do cloud computing, just remember this, with apologies to all the cloud providers out there….
Cloud computing, is just computing on someone elses computers…
Really, thats all it is. I mean there is a lot more to it than just someone elses computers – you won’t ever be able to play with a database that scales like Aurora does unless you drop a few million pounds, you won’t have access to the petabyte scale of storage unless you spend a few million more, and scaling up and down a few thousand machines in minutes is, well, amazing… But at the end of the day – it’s just someone elses computers.
So get good at using your own computers first. What I mean is – DON’T try and dive into cloud computing as your first job. It’ll come unstuck. Get a good sensible entry IT position like I said – and as soon as you do and you start learning with that wonderful on the job experience, then – start thinking like the cloud.
I’m not even going to explain to you what cloud computing is – because the people at Amazon have done a way better job than me. They have oodles of training courses in almost every language you would want – and best of all the intro courses are entirely free.
Oh, and if you want to try cloud computing as well – they give you a free AWS account for 12 months. Cannot really beat that. And yes, it is a little bit limited, the AWS free tier still gives you all you need to do some serious exploration of what cloud is all about.
So – take a look at the AWS cloud Practioner course here. https://aws.amazon.com/training/digital/aws-cloud-practitioner-essentials/
and you can sign up for the free tier here… https://aws.amazon.com/free
and welcome to a new world of computing….