Cloud & Infrastructure
Which cloud to learn first, and what to do with it once you have
Updated 24 October 2026
Almost nobody is paid to know a cloud platform in the abstract. You are paid to put something in it that stays up, costs a sensible amount and can be rebuilt if it disappears. These guides are ordered around that, rather than around certification syllabi.
One practical note before you pick a platform: in Indian DevOps hiring, AWS appears in job descriptions far more often than the other two. Azure matters most if you are targeting enterprise accounts, banking, or a GCC supporting a Microsoft-heavy client. GCP turns up in pockets, usually at data-heavy product companies. Learning a second cloud is much faster than the first, so the order matters more than the choice.
3 Clouds AWS, Azure, GCP
5 Guides Cloud Resources
AWS Most In-Demand
A sensible order to work through these
If you are starting from nothing, reading these in the order they appear above is not the best route. This is:
- 1. Pick a platform and stop deliberating. The comparison exists so you can make the decision in ten minutes rather than ten weeks. For most people in India the answer is AWS.
- 2. Learn the core services properly — compute, storage, networking and permissions. Identity and access management is the part everyone skips and then gets stuck on in interviews.
- 3. Understand environments before you automate anything. Knowing why dev, staging and production are separate is what stops cloud skills from turning into expensive accidents.
- 4. Add security once things work. Scanning and least-privilege make far more sense when you already have a running pipeline to attach them to.
- 5. Then look at a second platform, only if a job you actually want requires it. The concepts transfer; the menu names do not.
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