you need to learn google cloud right now why well google cloud is set up to be one of the highest paying skills in NUMBER_TOKEN. look at that it's the top two spots beating aws so yeah it's worth paying attention to and you can learn it right now for free in a really awesome way well on one sec coffee break okay now what i'm talking about is a fairly new thing called google cloud skill badges that's a mouthful kind of and i actually just got one it's on my linkedin profile check it out i'm proud of it right here under licenses and certificates if i click on see credential and boom that verifies i know how to do something on google cloud it verifies that skill i have now let me tell you getting this was not easy i had to go through a lab and configure stuff and then they graded it it was hard full disclosure it took me a few tries but it was awesome it was fun i was actually using google cloud but i did pass and now i know it and i have a badge a skill badge to prove it and i think you should get one too because it's free are you kidding me asterisk for NUMBER_TOKEN days we'll talk about that it's not a big deal trust me but you know what i'm not even sure you can do it that's probably too hard for you don't even try i'm trying reverse psychology let me know if it works for real do this now right now now before i show you how to do this how to start scaling yourself up in google cloud let's talk about why why should you learn google cloud and why should you do it right now oh and also real quick shout out to the sponsor this video manscaped um we'll talk more about them later because you probably need it anyways quick coffee break now let's talk about hey what the junk is google cloud and why do you need to learn it right now now first and you may have guessed this google cloud is a cloud service provider and i don't know if you know this but cloud is kind of hot right now in fact it's been hot and it will continue to be hot it's burning up like it just is if you're an i.t learning cloud has become like the thing you have to do now now as far as what is the cloud i've talked about that a lot on my channel so check out these videos but essentially it's just someone else's computer someone else a server somewhere else and you're paying that someone in this case google to rent it basically instead of buying your own server you're paying to rent his kind like a rental car but google cloud or the google cloud platform often abbreviated gcp it's one of three of the biggest players in the space well one of four if you consider china but we'll talk about that later the other two big players are aws or amazon web services and by the way they are the biggest the heavyweight champion the go-to cloud provider so they're in first place and then at a pretty distant second is microsoft azure and yes that does mean google cloud platform is in third the least popular of these two cloud providers but seriously third place ain't too bad here they are in the gartner magic quadrant if you're into that and they're growing like
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