Cloud Management: online course with internship agreement
Cloud Management teaches how organisations run cloud environments. You will set up landing zones, govern access from joining to leaving, link regions and on-premises networks, run Kubernetes, set SLOs and error budgets, explain cloud bills with unit cost, and apply NIS2, DORA and the Data Act. It is for career starters. The course is 100 % online for 180 days, includes an internship agreement and costs €200.
- 180 days of access
- 100 % online, at your own pace
- Level: beginner · No prior cloud experience required
- Assessment: 10 quizzes (50 questions) and a final project
- Internship agreement included
- Certificate with a verifiable QR code
- Languages: Spanish, English, French
- Price: €200
Who it is for
- Career starters aiming for junior cloud support, platform or FinOps roles
- Support or IT staff who must explain cloud decisions to compliance and audit teams
- Learners preparing for fundamentals cloud certifications and the KCNA path
- Sales engineers and analysts facing EU cloud regulation questions from clients
What do you need to start?
Prior knowledge
- No prior cloud or professional IT experience needed
- General computer literacy and comfort working in a web console
- Willingness to read technical documentation and build small labs by hand
Software and equipment
- A computer with a reliable internet connection
- Free practice environments: AWS Builder Sandbox, Microsoft Learn sandboxes or the Google Cloud always-free tier
- OpenTofu with kind or minikube for a local Kubernetes lab, so no cloud spending is needed
- No paid cloud account or licence is provided or required for the labs
What you'll be able to do
- Explain where provider and customer responsibility lies for IaaS, PaaS and SaaS in an audit review
- Set up a governed landing zone with a multi-account structure for a new client
- Run joiner, mover and leaver access processes and spot privileges that should have been removed
- Diagnose latency across regions and choose between routing changes, dedicated links or moving workloads
- Read pod status in Kubernetes to tell a crashing application from a failed image pull
- Define SLIs, SLOs and error budgets, and decide when an alert needs action
- Analyse a cloud bill with tagging and unit cost, separating rate from usage optimisation
- Identify which EU rule applies to a cloud question: Data Act, NIS2, DORA or SEAL
Skills you will practise
- Shared responsibility model
- Landing zones
- Joiner–mover–leaver access
- VPC peering and VPN
- Kubernetes
- OpenTofu
- SLI, SLO, error budgets
- FinOps unit cost
- NIS2 and DORA
- Postmortems
Syllabus
- Service models and the shared responsibility line, read as an auditor — Which layer the provider and the customer own in each service model, and how to answer audit and vendor risk questions precisely.
- Landing zones and multi-account governance — Setting up the governed starting point for new accounts and projects, a standardised task often given to first-year staff.
- Identity and access at organisation scale: joiner–mover–leaver — Granting, changing and removing access over the employee lifecycle so that permissions from previous roles do not linger.
- Cloud networking across regions and hybrid links — Virtual networks, peering, VPN and dedicated links, and why adding a region does not automatically reduce latency.
- Kubernetes fundamentals and the KCNA path — Containers, pods and troubleshooting on Kubernetes across different providers, aligned with the KCNA certification path.
- Platform engineering and the internal developer platform — How a platform team builds reusable golden-path templates, practised with OpenTofu and a local Kubernetes cluster.
- SRE basics: SLI, SLO, error budgets and on-call — Measuring service reliability, setting targets and error budgets, and separating signals worth noting from incidents needing action.
- FinOps: unit cost, tagging, rate vs usage optimisation — Turning a cloud bill total into meaningful unit costs with tagging, and choosing between rate and usage savings.
- The EU rulebook for cloud operations: Data Act, NIS2, DORA, sovereignty and SEAL — Data Act switching rights, NIS2 duties, DORA critical providers and SEAL sovereignty levels applied to real client questions.
- Getting hired without experience: portfolio, lab, postmortem and certification map — Building a reproducible lab, writing a postmortem and mapping certifications so a junior application stands out with evidence.
Internship agreement
With this course, an intern could support a cloud or platform team with landing-zone setup, access reviews and joiner–mover–leaver requests, or monitoring and on-call triage against defined SLOs. Other options include cost analysis and tagging in a finance or FinOps function, or answering cloud compliance questions on NIS2, DORA or the Data Act in a sales engineering or audit team.
The internship can run at the same time as the course, within the 180 days of access.
Frequently asked questions
What kind of job does the Cloud Management course prepare me for, and does it give me a certification?
Cloud Management targets junior roles such as cloud support associate, junior platform support, cloud engineer trainee or junior FinOps analyst. It covers the content behind fundamentals certifications such as AWS CLF-C02 and Google Cloud Digital Leader, and follows the KCNA path for Kubernetes. It does not replace those vendor exams: you take them separately with the provider. On completion you receive the course certificate, verifiable by QR code.
What could I actually do during the internship with this course?
You find the host company yourself. The school issues the internship agreement and its annex, and the company usually signs electronically within 1–2 working days. Suitable tasks include setting up accounts in a landing zone, running access reviews, monitoring services against SLOs, tagging resources and explaining cost changes, or preparing answers to client questions about NIS2, DORA or the Data Act.
Which tools, standards and EU rules does the course cover?
The course works with AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud free sandboxes, Kubernetes, and OpenTofu with kind or minikube for local labs. It covers the shared responsibility model, landing zones, SRE concepts (SLI, SLO, error budgets), FinOps unit cost and tagging. On regulation, it covers EU Data Act switching rules, NIS2, DORA's designation of critical cloud providers, and the SEAL sovereignty levels named in public tenders.
Is a fundamentals cloud certificate enough to get noticed for a junior cloud role?
According to the course, it is not. A fundamentals certificate works like a driving licence: it proves you know the rules, not that you can do the work, and overstating it on a CV is what interviewers check for. The Cloud Management course therefore has you build three pieces of evidence: a small, working, reproducible lab, a documented postmortem of a mistake you fixed, and a clear map of which certifications to take.
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Content updated: 07/10/2026