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Cloud Platform Foundations (AWS and Azure)

Most cloud decisions in Malaysian organisations are made by people who have to evaluate a proposal without having built anything on a cloud platform. That is a difficult position: the vocabulary is unfamiliar, the pricing is genuinely complicated, and every vendor's comparison favours the vendor. This day gives you the working model. What the core services do, what they cost and why the bill surprises people, where the provider's responsibility ends and yours begins, and the questions that separate a sound proposal from an expensive one.

Programme Agenda

What the Cloud Actually Is

Regions, availability zones and edge locations. Infrastructure, platform and software as a service, and why the boundary between them determines how much work stays with your team.

Compute

Virtual machines, containers, and serverless functions compared on cost, control and operational burden. When each is the right answer, and the common mistake of running a virtual machine because it is familiar.

Storage and Databases

Object, block and file storage, and the storage classes that make archival cheap and retrieval expensive. Managed relational and non-relational databases, and the trade in control you accept for not running one yourself.

Networking and Connectivity

Virtual networks, subnets, security groups, load balancers, and the connection options between your office or data centre and the cloud. Data transfer charges and why they surprise people.

Identity and the Shared Responsibility Model

Who secures what. Identity and access management, roles versus users, and the misconfiguration categories behind most cloud incidents. What the provider will never do for you.

Pricing and Cost Control

On-demand, reserved and spot pricing, committed use discounts, and free tiers that stop being free. Tagging, budgets and alerts, and the architectural choices that dominate a monthly bill.

Choosing a Platform

AWS and Azure compared on service coverage, licensing implications for existing Microsoft estates, local region availability, and support. Multi-cloud as a strategy versus multi-cloud as an accident.

Evaluating a Proposal

Participants work through a real migration or build proposal, identify the assumptions driving the cost, and produce the questions to put back to the vendor.

Learning Outcomes:
Use cloud vocabulary accurately in a vendor or architecture conversation
Choose between virtual machines, containers and serverless for a given workload
Select an appropriate storage class and understand its retrieval cost
Explain the shared responsibility model and what it leaves with your team
Read a cloud bill and identify the architectural decisions driving it
Compare AWS and Azure against your own constraints rather than a feature list
Interrogate a cloud proposal for hidden cost and operational assumptions

Duration: 1 Day (8 Hours)
Training Hours: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Level: Beginner
Training Mode: Physical, Online, or Hybrid
HRD Corp SBL-KHAS Claimable
Certificate of Completion included

Frequently Asked Questions

IT managers, project managers, procurement and finance staff evaluating cloud spend, developers new to cloud platforms, and business owners considering a migration. No prior cloud experience is assumed.

Some guided exploration of both consoles, but this is a foundations day rather than a build course. Participants who want to deploy and operate workloads should follow with Cloud Engineering Foundations.

No. Demonstration environments are provided. Participants with an existing account can follow along in it, which is useful for the cost module.

It is referenced for comparison but the depth is on AWS and Azure, which is where the Malaysian market concentrates. In-house delivery can shift the emphasis to whichever platform you actually run.

Yes, this programme is HRD Corp SBL-KHAS claimable. Our team can assist your HR department with the documentation required for the grant application.

Yes. Any programme can be booked as a team day. Everyone works the same brief together, so your people come away having built something and knowing each other better.

If you are claiming under HRD Corp, the session has to fall at least 14 days after your HRD Corp approval. If you are not claiming, the date is flexible and we work around your calendar.

Put them on the self-paced e-learning instead. Your team works through the modules on our LMS in their own time, sits the assessment, and earns the same certificate, so nobody has to clear a full day together.

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