Live Cloud And Infrastructure Environments
Assess skills across Azure, AWS, GCP, Microsoft 365, Linux, Windows Server, networking, cybersecurity, Kubernetes, and more.
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Stop Testing Memory. Start Measuring Real Skill. Measure workforce readiness, technical competency, and learning outcomes through live lab environments that assess practical skills across cloud, infrastructure, security, DevOps, and AI technologies.

5M+
Labs Provisioned
1M+
Participants Supported
60+
Technology Domains
10+
Years Delivering Hands-On Learning
Powering hands-on assessments for some of the world's leading enterprises, GSIs, and technology vendors
The Problem
Most technical assessments measure knowledge recall rather than practical capability.
Candidates may understand concepts but struggle to deploy, configure, troubleshoot, or optimize solutions in real-world environments.
Organizations often lack objective methods for differentiating beginner, intermediate, and advanced technical capabilities.
Without practical validation, staffing decisions, hiring evaluations, and capability development programs rely on assumptions rather than evidence.
Course completion and certification achievements don't always demonstrate job-ready skills.
CloudLabs provisions dedicated assessment environments where participants complete real-world technical tasks and receive automated scoring based on actual outcomes.
Assess skills across Azure, AWS, GCP, Microsoft 365, Linux, Windows Server, networking, cybersecurity, Kubernetes, and more.
Every task is verified through validation scripts that confirm successful completion and support task-level scoring.
Combine hands-on labs, scenario-based questions, and knowledge checks within a single assessment.
Transform assessment scenarios into guided learning experiences to support continuous skill development.
Deliver assessments through your branded portal or integrate them into existing learning and talent systems.
Track individual, team, and organizational performance through detailed dashboards and assessment reports.
How It Works
Identify technologies, competency levels, scoring models, and business goals.
Assessment Capabilities
Everything your organization needs to design, deploy, and scale hands-on technical assessments at enterprise grade.
Validate practical skills through real-world tasks and scenarios.
Assess capabilities across Azure, AWS, GCP, Oracle Cloud, and hybrid environments.
Verify outcomes automatically using infrastructure-level validation.
Support L100, L200, and L300 skill-level assessments.
Integrate with Moodle, Cornerstone, SAP SuccessFactors, and other learning systems.
Provide branded assessment journeys for employees, partners, customers, or candidates.
Identify skill gaps, readiness levels, and performance trends across teams.
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Evaluate workforce readiness across cloud, infrastructure, security, and platform teams. Identify skill gaps across teams, measure training effectiveness, improve workforce planning, and support digital transformation initiatives.
Benchmark technical capabilities across large engineering populations and align talent to customer engagements. Improve project staffing decisions, benchmark engineers at scale, increase delivery readiness, and accelerate capability development.
Assess delivery readiness across implementation, support, managed services, and consulting teams. Reduce bench-to-billable timelines, improve resource utilization, strengthen service quality, and increase customer satisfaction.
Evaluate technical competency among employees and partners through certification programs. Scale technical enablement, improve certification outcomes, increase field readiness, and strengthen customer success initiatives.
Measure product expertise and accelerate readiness across implementation, support, and customer success teams. Accelerate onboarding, improve product expertise, standardize technical competency, and increase customer adoption success.
Assess partner capability and strengthen technical enablement programs. Improve partner quality, increase deployment success, scale partner enablement, and support ecosystem growth.
Technology Coverage
CloudLabs orchestrates Azure, AWS, GCP, Oracle Cloud, and virtualized infrastructure environments to deliver hands-on technical assessments across the technologies your teams use every day.
Why CloudLabs
Creating hands-on technical assessments internally often requires significant investment in infrastructure, assessment development, validation logic, reporting, support, and ongoing maintenance. CloudLabs provides a faster, more scalable path to launching enterprise-grade technical assessment programs.
| Consideration | | I In-House Approach |
|---|---|---|
| Time To Launch | Launch assessment programs in weeks | Often requires months of development and testing |
| Assessment Development Effort | Co-create assessments with CloudLabs experts | Internal teams own design, development, validation, and maintenance |
| Technology Coverage | 60+ technology domains available | Build and maintain each assessment individually |
| Infrastructure Management | Managed by CloudLabs | Internal teams provision, maintain, and support environments |
| Multi-Cloud Assessment Support | Azure, AWS, GCP, Oracle, and hybrid scenarios | Complex to orchestrate and maintain across platforms |
| Automated Validation & Scoring | Built-in validation and task-level scoring | Requires custom development and ongoing updates |
| Reporting & Insights | Ready-to-use dashboards and performance analytics | Custom reporting development required |
| LMS & Platform Integrations | Available out of the box | Requires integration development and testing |
| Assessment Maintenance | Managed by CloudLabs | Continuous internal engineering effort required |
| Scalability | Designed for enterprise-wide programs | Limited by internal infrastructure and support capacity |
| Cost Predictability | Optimized environments with controlled cloud consumption | Risk of escalating cloud and operational costs |
| Ongoing Support | Dedicated technical and operational support | Internal teams provide ongoing support and troubleshooting |
Get Started
Evaluate how hands-on assessments can help your organization measure technical capability more effectively.
Build Real Assessment Scenarios
Create assessments aligned to your technologies, roles, and business objectives.
Evaluate Scoring and Reporting
Review automated scoring, capability insights, and performance analytics.
Launch A Pilot Cohort
Run assessments with a selected group before expanding across the organization.
Scale With Confidence
Deploy assessments across teams, business units, hiring programs, and partner ecosystems.
Tell us about your assessment needs and we'll help you get started.
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