you need to learn Google Cloud RIGHT NOW!!

About this video

A pitch for learning Google Cloud Platform right away, built around Google Cloud skill badges. He opens with the creator’s claim that Google Cloud roles occupied the top two highest-paying spots for 2022, ahead of AWS, and explains the landscape: AWS is the largest cloud provider, Microsoft Azure second, and GCP third but growing fast, with the creator citing a 66% rise in its infrastructure revenue in 2020 and its place on the Gartner Magic Quadrant. His central argument is not to pick only one cloud — companies increasingly run multi-cloud environments, core concepts like virtual machines, networking, storage, and Kubernetes transfer between providers, and having learned Azure first made AWS and GCP much easier for him. GCP specifically, he argues, is a good first choice because fewer people hold the skill, making it scarcer and potentially more valuable, and because it is free to start. Unlike the paid certification exams — he compares the associate-level AWS, Azure, and Google Certified Associate Cloud Engineer credentials — Google lets learners earn individual skill badges along the certification path. Each badge comes from a quest of hands-on labs run on real Google Cloud projects, where progress is automatically checked rather than self-reported, ending in a timed challenge lab with no instructions that he says took him a few attempts. He earned the Create and Manage Cloud Resources badge himself and displays it on LinkedIn. The free access, obtained via an emailed access code with no credit card, lasts 30 days, after which subscriptions or credits cost money; his advice is to spend those 30 days collecting as many verifiable badges as possible for a resume or LinkedIn profile.

Key takeaways

• Learn more than one cloud: multi-cloud is common, and foundational concepts transfer, so a first provider makes the others much easier to pick up
• A less common skill can be worth more — the creator argues GCP’s smaller talent pool makes its specialists scarcer than AWS or Azure ones
• Google Cloud skill badges break the certification path into individually verifiable milestones, so you can prove one skill without completing a full certification
• The labs are hands-on and auto-graded on real cloud projects, and each quest ends in an unaided challenge lab — the badge certifies doing, not just watching
• Badge quests were free for 30 days with no credit card required at signup, per the creator; use that window intensively, since access and the certification exam itself cost money afterward

Episode details: published November 4, 2021 · 14:47 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are NetworkChuck’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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