Today, more and more businesses and individuals are moving their computing to the cloud, and beginners may face a number of challenges as they navigate this new journey. I am pretty sure there are more challenges you have to face as a beginner. Today I am going to tackle the seven challenges that beginners face when they enter the cloud and solutions for that challenges.

1. Familiar with Cloud concepts

When every beginner enters this cloud journey and masters cloud concepts, such as what the cloud is, why it is important, and what can I use it for. Those are the problems every beginner faces. You can find free training on YouTube as well as AWS Skill Builder, AWS Documentation, as well as third-party providers like ACloudGuru, Udemy

2. How to handle security and compliance

The second-most common challenge for beginners in the cloud is how to handle security and compliance in your cloud infrastructures. At that time, you will need to learn about data privacy, data security, identities, access management, and encryption.

3. Cost management

When you begin this journey, have some idea about cost management. So you will need to learn how to use pricing calculators and diagramming tools to estimate the spending on your architecture. Additionally, you will need to understand budgeting, alerting, and monitoring tools that apply to your tech stack of choice.

4. Picking up Cloud native development

The fourth challenge I see beginner struggle with is picking up Cloud native development. So once you already have development skills, you can use self-directed projects to pick up Cloud native open-source tools like Kubernetes, Prometheus, Linkerd, and Rook in order to deepen your cloud experience.

5. Infrastructure as code

The fifth one is infrastructure as code. There are a lot of different tools that allow you to accomplish infrastructures as code. Such as CloudFormation, Terraform, and the Cloud Development Kit(CDK). But whichever tools you choose, be familiar with creating repeatable patterns that you can reuse between projects. This will save you tons of time.

6. Networking

The number six challenge that I see beginners really struggling with is networking. After all, it is called Amazon Web Services, Make sure you are familiar with HTTP, as well as OSI model as well as CIDR blocks and subnetting, as well as HTTPS and TLS. These concepts will take you far in the cloud.

7. Disaster Recovery

Seven challenges that I see beginners to Cloud struggling with the most is disaster recovery. So read the white papers, familiarize yourself with what disaster recovery strategies are out there and once you have chosen: "pilot light, active-active, active-passive", then you can move forward with figuring out how to implement that strategy with your chosen Technologies.

Everyone is a beginner in the cloud at one point in time.

So I think this post will be helpful for you to overcome these challenges as a beginner.