
- Batch
02
- Course Duration
12 months
- Session Timing
Saturday, 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Programme Overview
Big Data and Cloud Computing have been quite a breakthrough in recent times. Entering a facet of Big Data is being integrated with information systems and making it possible for companies across the country to take advantage of the large-scale computing facilities offering up resources to these organisations for small startup costs. Microsoft Azure, Amazon Elastic Cloud, Google App Engine among others are emerging as leading providers of these solutions and can be used in many different industries.
IIT Palakkad– PG Certificate Programme in Cloud Computing is one of the most affordable programmes of quality and calibre. This cloud programme offers you the opportunity to push yourself forward into your career in the cloud tech field like never before. Participants who want to take part in the technology shift and understand its implications; teaching both the fundamental concepts of how and why Cloud systems work.
Delve into core fundamental concepts of how and why Cloud systems work, Cloud technologies that manifest these concepts, such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and OpenStack. Learn distributed systems concepts like virtualization, data parallelism, CAP theorem, and performance analysis at scale. Get in-depth insight into “Big Data” programming patterns such as Map-Reduce, Continuous Dataflows, and NoSQL storage systems to build Cloud applications. Additionally, get exposure to hands-on projects and practices to understand the infrastructure.
Admission Criteria

Eligibility
- Bachelor degree with knowledge in computer programming with C/Java/C++
- Practitioners with up to 5 years of work experience.
About IIT Palakkad
The Indian Institute of Technology, Palakkad (est. 2015) is dedicated to creating an environment that enables students and faculty to engage in the pursuit of knowledge, to dream, think and innovate thereby becoming change agents for a better world. IIT Palakkad aims to become a multi-disciplinary institution with 5000 students by its 10th year. The Institute recognizes collective growth, in collaboration with industry and other academic institutions, as the need of the time and emphasises blue-sky research and directed research as two essential pillars of technology development. It embraces a vision to be a leader in cross-disciplinary inquiries, and to contribute to the potential that India’s demographic dividend represents for the country and the world, which is embodied in the motto of the institute “Nurturing minds for a better world.”
The IIT Palakkad Advantages:
- The Centre for Industry Collaboration and Sponsored Research (IC&SR) at IIT Palakkad represents an attempt to institutionalise such outward accountability in the education imparted here.
- Established a Technology Innovation Hub on Intelligent Collaborative System (TIH-ICS) as a part of the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS)
- Recognized as a Nodal Centre for Training in High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) by the National Supercomputing Mission, an initiative of the Government of India, in 2020.

Programme Highlights
PG Certificate from IIT Palakkad
Learn from IIT Palakkad‘s top-tier faculty and world class industry experts
Industry-relevant Projects and Practical Sessions
Live Discussion and Doubt Clearing Sessions
Highly Interdisciplinary Curriculum
Hands-on Capstone Projects
IIT Palakkad's Vibrant Alumni Community and Network
Admission Process
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Eligibility of Applicant
- 2
Application Submission
- 3
Screening & Shortlisting
- 4
Admission & Fee Payment
- 5
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Syllabus Breakdown
- Fundamental concepts of cloud computing.
- Concepts of operating systems and virtualization
- Cloud service models
- SLAs and SLOs
- Cloud Security
- Parallel and distributed programming models
- Hadoop MapReduce
- Spark
- Microservices architecture
- Production-ready microservices using Spring, SpringBoot, and Spring Cloud
- Cluster setup
- Programming in Hadoop MapReduce and HDFS
- Programming in Spark using Scala
Programme Fee Details

- No cost EMI available.
Application Fees
INR 2000/-Total Programme Fees
INR 1,10,000/- + GSTInstallment Pattern

Instalment 1
INR 60,000/- + GST (7 days from the release of offer letter latest by 13th September 2023)Instalment 2
INR 30,000/- + GSTInstalment 3
INR 20,000/- + GSTEarn a Career Certificate
PG Certificate Programme in Cloud Computing- IIT Palakkad for those who successfully complete the prescribed course of study and fulfil all other academic requirements.

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This interactive programme in Cloud Computing has the following eligibility criteria:
- A bachelor’s degree with a keen insight into new-age programming techniques such as C, Java, C++, etc.
- Practitioners with up to 5 years of work experience.
Here are the career prospect for cloud practitioners:
- Cloud security analyst
- Cloud network engineer
- Cloud automation engineer
- Cloud consultant
- Cloud software engineer
- Cloud engineer
- Cloud architect