| ✅ | ❌ Not for: | |----------------|----------------| | College students in an introductory IT course | Experienced DevOps engineers | | Career-switchers moving from on-prem IT to cloud | Anyone prepping for a specific cloud cert (AWS, Azure, GCP) within 4 weeks | | Managers needing to understand cloud fundamentals | Developers who want to learn serverless coding (e.g., Lambda functions) | | Self-learners who like structured, textbook-style chapters | People who want the absolute latest (post-2024) cloud trends |