Azure Lab Services is retiring. CloudLabs is the Microsoft-recommended alternative – Move your labs
CloudLabs replaces guesswork interviews with live cloud assessments. Candidates prove their skills in your actual stack. Your hiring team gets scored, observable evidence in hours, not weeks. Trusted by Wiz, Microsoft, Check Point, and Databricks to find engineers who ship.
Live candidate environment, ready fast. No procurement. No contract to start.
Most Trusted Lab Provider for Global ISVs of all sizes
Why hands-on hiring works
These are the metrics talent and engineering leaders track when shifting to skills-based hiring. Real-environment assessments move all of them in the right direction.
3x
Stronger signal on real-world job performance compared to coding screens or take-home assignments
Based on patterns observed across CloudLabs hiring programs
60%
Less senior engineering time spent on candidate screening when assessments run in live, auto-scored lab environments
Consistent with industry benchmarks from technical hiring research
2x
Higher candidate completion rate when assessments simulate real work instead of abstract puzzles
Reported across performance-based assessment programs
40%
Faster time-to-decision from first screen to offer when scoring is observable and standardized across panels
Typical improvement seen across CloudLabs-powered hiring programs
How it works
CloudLabs builds and manages the assessment environments. Your hiring team focuses on the signal, not the infrastructure.
Configure
Your tech, your cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP), the workflows your team genuinely uses. CloudLabs configures a candidate sandbox that mirrors production-shaped work, with scored tasks and built-in validation. No generic coding puzzles.
Deploy
Send candidates a single link. They land in a fully provisioned, isolated cloud environment in their browser. No installs, no VPN, no setup overhead. The same environment, every time, for every candidate, in any region.
Score
Every action a candidate takes is captured. Auto-scored tasks generate a comparable signal across the pipeline. Your hiring panel sees a structured scorecard with replayable evidence, not just a thumbs up or down. Decisions get faster and more defensible.
Assessment Types
From the first technical screen to the final hands-on round, CloudLabs supports the full candidate evaluation lifecycle for technical roles.
01 / Candidate Sandbox
Send candidates an isolated AWS, Azure, or GCP environment with your exact stack pre-deployed. They demonstrate cloud, security, or platform work in real conditions — not a sterile coding pad. Used by Wiz to screen cloud security engineers across their pipeline.
Hiring panels see what a candidate actually does in a real environment, not what they claim on a resume.
Why CloudLabs
Most assessment platforms started as coding test tools or general LMS systems. CloudLabs was built from the ground up to deliver real, isolated cloud environments at scale — which is the only way to credibly evaluate cloud, security, DevOps, and platform engineers.
Hiring on proxies
Coding screens that don't reflect the job
Take-homes that get gamed or AI-generated
6+ engineer hours per hire on review
Inconsistent panels, drifting bars
Slow ramp time when hires actually start
Hiring on evidence
Real AWS, Azure, GCP environments scored live
Auto-graded, replayable, audit-trail-backed
~2 hours of engineer review per hire
Same rubric, same lab, every region
Hires productive faster — they trained on the same stack
What makes it different
Candidates click a link and they are in a live cloud environment. No setup, no VPN, no firewall exceptions. Lower friction means higher completion rates and a better candidate experience for your employer brand.
Most assessment tools give candidates a code editor. CloudLabs gives them a full AWS, Azure, or GCP environment. For cloud, security, platform, and DevOps hiring, that's the only way to measure real capability.
Auto-scored lab tasks and replayable session capture mean your senior engineers review structured evidence in minutes, not chase down take-homes for hours. They stay on the work that actually matters.
The same environment, same tasks, same scoring rubric — regardless of who is interviewing or where they are. Hiring decisions become defensible and the bias panel interviews introduce gets dialed back.
When candidates are mid-assessment in Tokyo, Bangalore, Berlin, or Toronto, our team is on standby. Time zones are covered. Sessions don't fail at 2am because no one is around.
Talent acquisition, legal, and security review teams all ask hard questions. We have already answered them. Full Trust Center documentation, candidate data handling controls, and signed DPAs available on request.
Platform Capabilities
Everything your talent, recruiting, and engineering teams need to run skills-based hiring at scale — without operating cloud infrastructure.
Assessments built around the work your team actually does, not generic coding puzzles.
Your stack, your cloud. AWS, Azure, and GCP all supported from one platform.
Spin up isolated candidate environments for one role or one thousand.
Replace gut feel with a structured scorecard that every interviewer sees the same way.
CloudLabs slots into the recruiting stack your team already runs.
Full operational support and procurement-ready compliance from day one.
Client Stories
WeareincrediblypleasedwithourexperienceusingCloudLabsbySpektraSystems.Theirresponsivenessandsupporthavebeennothingshortofoutstanding.Theydemonstratedremarkableflexibilityinaccommodatingouruniqueprocesses,resultinginaseamlessandhighlyproductivecollaboration.ThankstoCloudLabs,wehavesuccessfullydeliveredAzure-relatedcoursestoasubstantialnumberofstudents.
Hiring Assessment POC
Want to pilot a real lab-based hiring assessment?
Qualifying ISVs and enterprises get a complimentary Proof-of-Concept. We will scope, build, and run a real lab-based assessment with one of your hiring tracks. No commitment to continue.
One full assessment scenario for one role
Scenario design, scoring rubric, checkpoint configuration, ATS integration.
White-glove design
Solution architects and hiring program specialists scope and build with your recruiting and engineering team.
Real candidates, real scores
Walk away with completion data, cohort rankings, and predictive-validity signals.
Two to four weeks from kickoff to first candidate run
Tell us about your hiring program and the role you are looking to assess.
