Alibaba Cloud Academy vs Intellipaat Cloud Training

Alibaba Cloud Academy is Alibaba Cloud’s training and certification division for clients, partners, and developers. Programs include Clouder, Specialty, and short video courses, with certification routes across Associate, Certified, Expert, Professional, Capability and Competency, Clouder, and developer credentials. The listed Academy Membership costs $19.90 a year and includes unlimited access to 130+ online training courses, free Apsara Clouder certifications, and up to four attempts for each Apsara Clouder and Specialty certification. Other courses, specialties, credentials, vouchers, and subscriptions may require payment. Academy activities require a main Alibaba Cloud account; RAM accounts are unsupported. Pearson VUE exams can be taken at test centers or online, except online-proctored exams are unavailable in the Chinese mainland. Professional certifications last two years, and status can be verified through a one-step process. Badges can be shared on Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn, but not through Credly.

Intellipaat Cloud Training is an online cloud computing and DevOps program combining live virtual classes with self-paced learning. It teaches building and deploying SaaS, PaaS and IaaS applications on AWS and Azure, and covers tools including Docker, Jenkins, Selenium, Maven, Python, Linux and Splunk. The curriculum includes integrated labs, capstone projects, and more than 50 industry projects and case studies. Live classes are led by industry experts, with individual mentor sessions, weekday revision and doubt-clearing sessions, and 24×7 support. The Cloud Computing and DevOps Job Opportunity Program runs for seven months with 208 hours of self-paced learning and costs ₹99,009, paid once. It includes an Intellipaat certificate and a Microsoft Azure Fundamentals AZ-900 exam voucher worth $99. Placement services last 12 months after completion, subject to passing the Placement Readiness Test and entering the placement pool. Separate free AWS, Azure and DevOps foundation courses are listed.