Three quarters of cloud leaders expect spending to increase over the next two years. Fewer than half say they have achieved the outcomes they expected so far. Pluralsight's new Cloud Ready programme is built around that gap.
Cloud budgets are rising faster than the capabilities to use them effectively. Only 14% of organisations have the maturity to run AI workloads at scale, according to data cited by Pluralsight, even as Gartner forecasts that half of all cloud infrastructure will be dedicated to AI by 2029. For enterprise technology leaders, that arithmetic carries a practical consequence: teams that cannot operate modern cloud environments reliably will not be able to run AI on them either.
Pluralsight announced Cloud Ready on 7 May, framing it as a programmatic alternative to ad-hoc training. The programme covers AWS, Azure, and GCP through a combination of skill assessments, role-based learning paths, certification preparation, instructor-led sessions, and sandboxed environments where teams can work in live cloud and AI infrastructure without affecting production systems.
"The cloud conversation has moved from adoption to accountability," said Erin Gajdalo, CEO of Pluralsight. "
Organizations are increasing cloud investment, but many still struggle to turn that spend into measurable business outcomes because their teams lack the skills to execute. Our Cloud Ready solution helps close that capability gap so enterprises can strengthen cloud foundations, modernize faster, and prepare their teams for AI at scale.
The programme targets the roles directly responsible for cloud migration, modernisation, AI infrastructure, and cost optimisation — engineers, architects, security specialists, and operations teams — rather than offering a single generalised curriculum. Dedicated programme management is included to help leaders map team capability against cloud transformation goals and track progress over time.
Faye Ellis, Cloud Author Fellow at Pluralsight, described the underlying logic: "AI-ready organizations need cloud-ready teams.
Cloud Ready gives leaders a structured way to understand where their teams are today, build the right capabilities for their cloud strategy, and give practitioners hands-on experience in environments that mirror the work they need to do.
The product sits in a category that has expanded considerably as cloud deployments have matured past initial migration work into operational complexity. Delayed migrations, escalating spend, and stalled AI initiatives are now common complaints among enterprise cloud teams, and the upskilling market has followed. Where Pluralsight is differentiating Cloud Ready is in the emphasis on diagnostics and structured progression rather than content libraries alone — the programme incorporates assessment against business priorities at the start, not just access to learning material.
Cloud Ready is available now from Pluralsight's enterprise sales team.
