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Azure

Creating an Azure Account: What You Get and What to Set Up First Azure Regions and Availability Zones: Where Your Things Actually Live Azure Services: A Map for People Who Know Linux Azure Load Balancer: Set Up a Public Load Balancer for Two Servers, and What Goes Wrong Free Azure VM Azure SMTP Relay

AWS

Creating an AWS Account: Root User, Plans and the First Hour AWS Regions and Availability Zones: Why Your Instance Disappeared AWS Services: A Map for People Who Know Linux EC2 From Scratch: A Server You Can Trust Free AWS VM

Google Cloud

Creating a Google Cloud Account: Billing Accounts, Projects and the Free Trial Google Cloud Regions and Zones: Zonal, Regional and Global Things Google Cloud Services: A Map for People Who Know Linux Free GCP VM

Oracle Cloud

Creating an Oracle Cloud Account: Tenancy, Home Region and Always Free Oracle Cloud Regions, Availability Domains and Fault Domains Oracle Cloud Services: A Map for People Who Know Linux Free Oracle Cloud VM

OpenStack: build your own cloud

OpenStack in One Page: What It Is and How the Services Fit Together Build a Test Cloud with DevStack: From a Blank Ubuntu to a Working Cloud Your First OpenStack Instance: Key Pair, Security Group, Floating IP and the Mistakes Everybody Makes Persistent Volumes on OpenStack: Cinder, Snapshots, Resize and Boot from Volume Your Own Networks on OpenStack: Subnets, Routers, Ports and Floating IPs (Neutron) Automate Your OpenStack Cloud with Terraform: A Whole Network and Server from One File OpenStack for Real: Deployment Tools, High Availability, Storage, Upgrades and What to Decide First

Command-line tools

The Azure CLI (az): Sign In, Defaults, Output and Query The AWS CLI (aws): Sign In, Profiles, Output and Query The Google Cloud CLI (gcloud): Sign In, Configurations, Format and Filter The Oracle Cloud CLI (oci): Config File, API Keys, Sessions and Query Four Cloud CLIs Side by Side: az, aws, gcloud and oci

Infrastructure, operations and security

Terraform Basics: Describe It, Plan It, Apply It Cloud Networking Essentials: Addresses, Subnets, Routes and Rules DNS and Domain Names Across the Clouds Cloud IAM Essentials: Who Can Do What, and Where Cloud Cost Control: Stop Surprises Before They Start First Boot on Every Cloud: cloud-init and User Data Cloud Backups and Disaster Recovery: Protect, Copy, Restore Cloud Security Baseline: A Checklist You Can Audit Moving Your First Workload to the Cloud: Inventory, Sync, Cutover and Rollback

Containers, Kubernetes and serverless

Kubernetes Node Access Containers on the Cloud: Images, Registries and Serverless Containers Kubernetes on the Cloud: A Managed Cluster and kubectl Serverless Functions on Every Cloud: Handlers, Events and Limits

From zero to production — without losing your cloud credits.

Why did the cloud developer break up with the on-premise engineer?
Because there was no commitment in the relationship!

Providers

AWS — The cloud where everything costs money
Azure — Microsoft's cloud where everything is a resource
GCP — Google's cloud where everything is Kubernetes

⚠️ Warning: Cloud bills are like black holes — they suck everything in and you won't notice until it's too late. Always set billing alerts!

What's the difference between a cloud engineer and a magician?
One pulls infrastructure out of the air, the other just pulls it out of the terraform.tf!