Qwiklabs
“Can hands-on cloud lab environments become the default onboarding funnel for a hyperscaler's developer ecosystem?”
Founded2012
HQCambridge, Massachusetts, United States
IndustryVertical SaaS / Education
The story
Qwiklabs launched in 2012 as an AWS-focused hands-on cloud learning platform and became Amazon's default self-paced lab provider. Google acquired the company in November 2016 to build out its own cloud training stack, and Qwiklabs was subsequently absorbed into Google Cloud Skills Boost. As a wholly-owned Google subsidiary, Qwiklabs' payments, banking, and compliance infrastructure sit within Google's broader corporate stack rather than being operated independently.
Last 12 months
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Product timeline
2012
Qwiklabs founded as a hands-on learning platform for cloud skills, initially focused on AWS training.· launch
2016
Acquired by Google to power Google Cloud training and onboarding across Google Cloud Platform and G Suite.· acquisition
The stack
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