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Prompt course · 9 lessons · 24 prompts · 1 hour · Beginner

AI for Cloud Architects

This prompt course gives cloud architects nine lessons with ready-to-use prompts for comparing services, drafting designs, planning migrations, and more. You practice on real work and learn to check every answer before you use it.

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What you'll learn

  • Compare services: Ask for side-by-side comparisons of cloud providers and services for a specific workload.
  • Draft designs: Turn requirements into draft architectures, network layouts, and starter infrastructure code.
  • Plan migrations: Assess applications, sequence moves, and spot dependencies and risks before you migrate.
  • Write security policies: Draft least-privilege policies, threat models, and firewall rules you can review and tighten.
  • Optimize costs: Get plain-English explanations of spend plus rightsizing and commitment suggestions.
  • Monitor systems: Interpret metrics and logs, set sensible alerts, and get troubleshooting ideas from a description.
  • Automate deployments: Generate and debug pipeline configs and infrastructure code, with explanations of what they do.
  • Ensure compliance: Map controls to frameworks and draft guardrails and policy text your organization needs.

What's inside

9 lessons · 24 prompts
  1. Before you start · framework course RACE Prompt Framework: Role, Action, Context, ExpectationRACE fits your role because it sets role, action, context, and expected quality, like designing an AWS landing zone with cost limits.
  2. Start here Priya's Thursday, two waysA day in the life of a Cloud Architect, before and after these prompts.
  3. 01 Lesson 1 · 3 prompts Compare Cloud Services
  4. 02 Lesson 2 · 3 prompts Draft Infrastructure Designs
  5. 03 Lesson 3 · 3 prompts Plan Cloud Migrations
  6. 04 Lesson 4 · 3 prompts Write Security And IAM Policies
  7. 05 Lesson 5 · 2 prompts Optimize Cloud Costs
  8. 06 Lesson 6 · 3 prompts Monitor And Troubleshoot Systems
  9. 07 Lesson 7 · 3 prompts Automate Deployments And IaC
  10. 08 Lesson 8 · 2 prompts Ensure Compliance And Governance
  11. 09 Lesson 9 · 2 prompts Communicate And Document Designs

About this course

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Prompt Course for Cloud Architects: Nine Practical Lessons

Cloud architects spend a lot of time turning requirements into designs, plans, and policies. This course gives you a set of prompts that help you get to a useful first draft quickly.

Each lesson focuses on one part of the job, from comparing services to documenting decisions. You will use ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini to practice, then review and refine what you get.

  1. The lessons
    1. Compare Cloud Services: You get quick, structured comparisons of cloud providers and services so you can pick the right fit for a workload.
    2. Draft Infrastructure Designs: You turn requirements into draft architectures, network layouts, and starter infrastructure-as-code you can refine.
    3. Plan Cloud Migrations: You get help assessing apps, sequencing moves, and spotting dependencies and risks before a migration.
    4. Write Security And IAM Policies: You draft least-privilege policies, threat models, and firewall rules that you then review and tighten.
    5. Optimize Cloud Costs: You get plain-English explanations of spend and concrete rightsizing and commitment recommendations.
    6. Monitor And Troubleshoot Systems: You interpret metrics and logs, set sensible alerts, and get troubleshooting hypotheses from a description.
    7. Automate Deployments And IaC: You generate and debug pipeline configs and infrastructure code, and get explanations of what they do.
    8. Ensure Compliance And Governance: You map controls to frameworks and draft the guardrails and policy text your organization needs.
    9. Communicate And Document Designs: You turn architecture work into clear decision records and stakeholder-friendly explanations.
  2. What the course covers

    The course walks through nine lessons in order. You start with comparing cloud services and end with communicating and documenting your designs.

    Each lesson gives you a prompt you can copy, plus guidance on what to check and how to adapt it to your environment.

  3. How the lessons connect

    The lessons build on each other. Comparing services helps you choose the right building blocks. Drafting designs and planning migrations use those choices. Security, cost, monitoring, automation, and compliance then layer on top.

    By the end, you have a full set of prompts that cover the arc of a cloud project.

  4. How to use the prompts well

    Start with a clear description of your workload, constraints, and goals. The more specific you are, the more useful the draft.

    Always review the output. AI can miss details or suggest something that does not fit your organization. Treat every answer as a first draft, not a final decision.

  5. Who it is for

    This course is for cloud architects who want to work faster without cutting corners. It is also useful for senior engineers moving into architecture.

    You do not need prior AI experience. If you can describe a problem, you can use these prompts.

  6. Safety and privacy for this job

    Cloud architecture often involves sensitive details about systems, customers, and security. Never paste confidential information into a public AI tool unless your organization allows it.

    The course shows you how to abstract details, ask for general patterns, and keep private data out of your prompts. You stay in control of what you share.

  7. Your next step

    Pick one lesson that matches a task on your desk this week. Try the prompt, refine the result, and see how much time you save.

    Then move through the rest of the course at your own pace. The more you practice, the more natural it becomes.