The Ultimate Multi-Cloud Roadmap (AWS + GCP + Azure: Associate to Architect Level)
Empower your academy with a future-proof 6-month journey that delivers hands-on, enterprise-ready engineers, ready for ANY cloud. The curriculum covers AWS, GCP, and Azure—from foundations to architect-level mastery—with full-stack corporate-grade projects.
Months 1-5: Master the Clouds, Tool by Tool
Month 1: AWS Cloud Core
- Certifications: Solutions Architect Associate & SysOps Administrator
- Design Resilient & High-Performance Architectures: VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, EC2, Lambda, CloudFront, Route 53, Fault-tolerant, scalable blueprints.
- Operations & Automation: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, CloudFormation, Auto Scaling, Load Balancers, Elastic Beanstalk.
- Security & Compliance: IAM, KMS, SSM, Encryption, Cost Optimization.
- Mini-Projects: Build production-level monitoring dashboards, Automate multi-tier deployments.
Month 2: GCP Engineering
- Certifications: Associate Cloud Engineer & Professional Cloud Architect
- Foundations & Operations: Cloud Console, Resource Hierarchy, IAM, Billing, CLI.
- Infrastructure Design: VPCs, Compute Engine, GKE (Kubernetes), Cloud Run, Storage, Firestore, Pub/Sub.
- Professional Strategies: SLOs/SLIs, DR, migration, microservices, CI/CD on GCP.
- Mini-Projects: Deploy managed Kubernetes with GKE, Implement CI/CD for microservices, Create observability dashboards.
Month 3: Azure Cloud Expertise
- Certifications: Administrator Associate (AZ-104) & Solutions Architect
- Administration Fundamentals: Azure AD, identity/governance, Storage, Compute, Virtual Networks, Monitoring.
- Architectural Skills: ARM, Resource Manager, Security Center, Azure Policy, RBAC, Business Continuity, Site Recovery, Backup.
- Governance, Security, & Scale: Conditional Access, Compliance, Policy enforcement, Automation.
- Mini-Projects: Hybrid network bridge with on-prem, Automate DR solutions, Role-based secure deployments.
Month 4: Cloud-Native Services & Automation
- Terraform (IaC) for multi-cloud.
- CI/CD pipelines: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI for all three clouds.
- Configuration Management: Ansible, automation of end-to-end deployments.
- Multi-Cloud Security Pipelines: Scan, audit, enforce compliance.
- Mini-Projects: Deploy global web application via IaC across clouds, Policy-driven auto-remediation scripts.
Month 5: Multi-Cloud Monitoring, Logging, SRE Practices
- Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana (all clouds); native tools like AWS CloudWatch, GCP Operations Suite, Azure Monitor.
- Centralized Logging: Loki, Cloud-native logging.
- Distributed Tracing: Tempo & cloud tracing tools.
- Incident Response & ChatOps: Slack integrations, automated alerting, runbook triggers.
- Mini-Projects: Cross-cloud real-time dashboards, Self-healing automation using alert-driven triggers.
Month 6: 12 Full-Fledged Corporate-Level Capstone Projects
Wrap up with a marathon of production-level, multi-cloud projects that show real engineering muscle, spanning AWS, GCP, and Azure stacks. Each project features GitOps, IaC, advanced automation, and robust observability.
Capstone Projects Lineup
- Multi-Cloud GitOps Enterprise Platform: Automated application rollouts on EKS, GKE, and Azure AKS using Argo CD, advanced branching, seamless DR.
- Global Service Mesh Deployment: Secure, observable microservices mesh on all clouds with Istio/Kiali, integrated traffic management and resilience.
- Zero-Downtime Canary & Blue/Green Rollouts: Advanced deployment policies (Istio, Argo Rollouts) for all major clouds, rollback & Slack alerts.
- Infra-as-Code Megaproject: Terraform & ARM templates to provision, secure, and network multi-cloud environments with backup/restore automation.
- Cross-Cloud Logging & Tracing Stack: Centralize logging with Loki, tracing with Tempo, multi-source integration with Alloy and native log tools.
- Automated Incident Response & ChatOps: Multi-cloud alerting driven by Grafana, Prometheus, and cloud-native, with Slack/Teams integrations and auto-remediation.
- Enterprise-Grade CI/CD Pipeline: Secure image builds, secrets management, SAST/DAST, and signed releases for AWS, GCP, and Azure.
- Unified Multi-Cloud Telemetry Platform: Deploy Alloy agents for unified monitoring and logging across AWS, GCP, Azure, all visualized in Grafana.
- Full Disaster Recovery Solution: Cross-region, multi-cloud DR with automated failover, backup testing, encrypted replication.
- Self-Healing, Auto-Remediating Infra: Heal resources on any cloud automatically based on trigger rules; leverage Ansible, AWS Lambda, GCP Cloud Functions, Azure Logic Apps.
- Serverless Event-Driven Suite: Multi-cloud eventing with AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, GCP Cloud Functions—monitor and track across all via unified logs/traces.
- Business KPIs & Real-Time Analytics: Use Alloy, Prometheus, native tools to gather metrics, create forecasting dashboards (Grafana) from disparate sources.
Roadmap Table
| Month | Key Focus | Major Tools & Platforms | Capstone/Projects |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AWS Core | SAA, SysOps, CloudFormation | Resilient, auto-scaling infra |
| 2 | GCP Engineering | ACE, PCA, GKE, Pub/Sub | Managed K8s, CI/CD, observability |
| 3 | Azure Operations & Architecture | AZ-104, Architect, ARM, Azure Monitor | Hybrid bridges, DR automation |
| 4 | Multi-Cloud Automation | Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub | Globalized IaC, cross-cloud automation |
| 5 | Observability, SRE | Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Alloy | Unified dashboards, alert-driven healing |
| 6 | Project Sprint | All platforms & tools | 12 Full-Scale, Corporate Capstones |
By the end of this journey, students will be:
- Certified on AWS, GCP, Azure (Associate to Architect)
- Skilled across all major production tools
- Portfolio-ready with cloud-agnostic projects
- Truly enterprise and hiring ready