A Cloud GuruReviews of acloudguru.com

Been using A Cloud Guru (ACG) as I really liked the hands on labs they acquired from Linux Academy. Sadly, since Pluralsight acquired ACG, the platform became outdated, with some courses not fully migrated from LA, some broken labs, etc. I took no less than 200 hours of content from this platform, which helped me to pass many certification exams (most of them AWS), but I'm not feeling confident about the platform anymore. Last year I switched to KodeKloud as I found it to be the best platform for my skills (I work as a DevOps Engineer). I'm really thankful for the good years of ACG, but now it's not a platform I could recommend anymore. Edit: Cloud playgrounds are still good imo

ACG Quality has dramatically dropped since Pluralsight purchase. In the past ACG was leader in cloud training with excellent up to date content delivered by excellent instructors, which in the fast moving cloud world is essential. Now a significant amount of the content is out of date. There is nothing worse than spending many hours studying for an exam only to find the content you studied and the exam are out of alignment. Ryan.. please return and get the business back on track.

There are little to no practical examples compared to other certification training providers and it feels like the tutors are not really adding any additional value, they simply read off of the PowerPoint slides. It's like you're bored with hundreds of facts you need to memorize to pass the exam, instead of actually learning something and taking the exam as proof of what you've learned.

It seems the new wave of politically correct madness has infected this company too, as an insult to every customer with normal intelligence. Energy is spent renaming technical concepts but not updating stale and, frankly, useless content, past the beginner level.

I was on acloudguru years ago and it was pretty good. Recently, my employer pays for the sub so I figured why not use it. As others have stated the courses are hit or miss. MANY questions on the forums are years old with no answers. There's not even basic functionality like "bookmark this course" so you can find it easy later on. Evidently Pluralsight acquired acloudguru in July 2021 and interestingly enough if you look through the reviews here, someone from ACG was responding up until end of May so my suspicion is the ACG platform is basically abandoned and the content will likely be moving over the Pluralsight, which as a platform is not great either and is plagued by outdated content so i guess them and ACG are a good match.

I'm a former LinuxAcademy customer who got caught up in the acquisition by A Cloud Guru, now PluralSight. My subscription ended yesterday. I attempted to cancel my subscription due to dissatisfaction with the overall experience. I encountered a system error during the downgrade process, then upon refreshing, I noticed I had been forced into a renewal by their billing system for 1 more year. I also received an unauthorized charge with tax included for a state that I no longer reside in. Are you supposed to be collecting taxes for online e-learning subscriptions (seems questionable)? I reached out to their support yesterday and today with nothing but automated responses. I'm beyond disappointed and still waiting for help from an actual support person. Update: I finally heard back from support and thankfully they were able to cancel the subscription, refund the renewal charge, and stop the auto-renewal.

I was with Linux Academy and happy with that, after the ACG acquisition, most certification courses have been left outdated, not worth my money anymore. And now with the acquisition from Pluralsight, I don't see a future (in term of costs) for customers. I terminated my membership.

I subscribed for a year with ACG in order to prepare myself for the Azure Data Engineer certification (DP-200, DP-201, DP-203. The learning paths are incomplete and the test exam at the end does not prepare at all for the certification. I realized that when I bought test exams from other web sites like Udemy or SkillCertPro. I shoud have started with Microsoft Learning path instead of waste my time to the Guru Plateform. What is the most frusturating aspect of their website is the sale pitch "Learn by doing". In fact, most of the Azure services related to DP-203 was not available on the playground plateform sandbox. I complained about it but I never had any feedback from them. If you want to learn Azure with an data engineering perspective, do not waste your money with AGC. I have given 2 stars because the learning path for Azure Fundamental certification is acceptable.