Cloud Academy

Cloud Academy is a hands-on technology skills training platform, now operating as the QA Learning Platform (cloudacademy.com redirects to platform.qa.com). It combines self-paced course content with hands-on labs, learning paths, quizzes, and exams across cloud, security, and software disciplines. Its public REST API lets enterprise administrators integrate the platform with internal business systems — browsing the content catalog, managing organization teams and members, and generating asynchronous reports on learner activity, progress, and skills. Authentication is OAuth2 client-credentials and the public API is rate-limited to 100 requests per minute. Cloud Academy was surfaced as a 500 Global portfolio company and enriched into the API Evangelist network from its live Swagger definition.

Cloud Academy publishes 3 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Learning Management System API, Organizations API, and Reports API. Tagged areas include Company, Training, Education, LMS, and Cloud Computing.

The Cloud Academy catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Cloud Academy’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, and 23 more developer resources.

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1 published contract 3 Agent Skills

Company Training Education LMS Cloud Computing Skills Reporting E-Learning

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Human Capital Management

BC-300

Learning Management SystemReports

GET /v2/company/progress/ GET /v2/content/catalog/ POST /v1/reports/certifications/ POST /v1/reports/content-progress/

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 56.3/100 · strong

Contract Quality 8.7 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 8.8 / 15

Access Clarity 10.7 / 15

Operational Transparency 5.6 / 10

Contract Governance 1.6 / 9

Discoverability 5.5 / 8

Regulatory Posture 5.1 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 30/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks

6 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 46.3 — up to +13.4 composite points
Contract Governance scores 18.2 — up to +9.8 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 58.9 — up to +8.2 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Education and Edtech	undeclared	-	-	1

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OAuth 2.0

measured — observed by APIs.io (declared)

APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Cloud Academy Learning Management System API

The Learning Management System API from Cloud Academy — 9 operation(s) for learning management system.

Cloud Academy Organizations API

The Organizations API from Cloud Academy — 5 operation(s) for organizations.

Cloud Academy Reports API

The Reports API from Cloud Academy — 32 operation(s) for reports.

Open Collections 3

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

QA Learning Management System API

OPEN COLLECTION

QA Learning Management System Organizations API

OPEN COLLECTION

QA Learning Management System Reports API

OPEN COLLECTION

Agent Skills 3

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Browse the QA content catalog

AGENT SKILL

Manage organization teams and members

AGENT SKILL

Run and retrieve a report

AGENT SKILL

Cloud Academy API pricing

Prices published by Cloud Academy, read 2026-10-28 from platform.qa.com/pricing/?audience=small_teams.

Plan	Price
Discovery	$25* per user per year billed annually Includes: 14 INTRODUCTORY LESSONS ACROSS AI, Cloud Platforms, Marketing, Leadership & Business Change; Limited
Pick Your Portfolio	starting from $299* per user per year billed annually Includes: Portfolio bundles
All Tech	$399*/user per user
Artificial Intelligence	$299*/user per user
Cloud Platforms	$299*/user per user
All Business	$399*/user per user
Marketing	$299*/user per user
Leadership & Business Change	$299*/user per user

All 10 plans, limits and sources →

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Pricing Plans 2

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Cloud Academy Plans Pricing

10 plans

PLANS

Cloud Academy Price Estimates

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Cloud Academy Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Cloud Academy

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Cloud Academy Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Cloud Academy API Rules

43 rules · 40 errors 2 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Cloud Academy Openapi Overlay

2 actions · update · cloud-academy-openapi-original.json

DERIVED

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Cloud Academy Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Cloud Academy Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Cloud Academy Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Cloud Academy Agentic Access

52 operations · 36 acting · 4 human-in-the-loop

52 operations · 36 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

X-MCPServerCandidate

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conformance

DataModel

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

StatusPage

Deprecation

RateLimits

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: cloud-academy
name: Cloud Academy
description: Cloud Academy is a hands-on technology skills training platform, now operating as the QA Learning Platform (cloudacademy.com
  redirects to platform.qa.com). It combines self-paced course content with hands-on labs, learning paths, quizzes, and exams
  across cloud, security, and software disciplines. Its public REST API lets enterprise administrators integrate the platform
  with internal business systems — browsing the content catalog, managing organization teams and members, and generating asynchronous
  reports on learner activity, progress, and skills. Authentication is OAuth2 client-credentials and the public API is rate-limited
  to 100 requests per minute. Cloud Academy was surfaced as a 500 Global portfolio company and enriched into the API Evangelist
  network from its live Swagger definition.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cloud-academy/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Paid · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  - url: https://cloudacademy.com
    status: 301
    note: declared website redirects to https://platform.qa.com/login/ — a different registrable domain (cloudacademy.com
      -> qa.com), possible rename or acquisition (probed 2026-09-03, roadmap#169)
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://assets.platform.qa.com/hanami/static/favicon-platform/apple-touch-icon.png
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: enriched
x-tier-reason: live-openapi
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Training
- Education
- LMS
- Cloud Computing
- Skills
- Reporting
- E-Learning
tags_raw:
- Company
- Training
- Education
- Learning Management
- Cloud Computing
- Skills
- Reporting
- eLearning
apis:
- aid: cloud-academy:cloud-academy-learning-management-system-api
  name: Cloud Academy Learning Management System API
  description: The Learning Management System API from Cloud Academy — 9 operation(s) for learning management system.
  humanURL: https://platform.qa.com/restapi/docs/swagger/
  baseURL: https://platform.qa.com/restapi
  tags:
  - LMS
  tags_raw:
  - Learning Management System
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cloud-academy-learning-management-system-api-openapi.yml
- aid: cloud-academy:cloud-academy-organizations-api
  name: Cloud Academy Organizations API
  description: The Organizations API from Cloud Academy — 5 operation(s) for organizations.
  humanURL: https://platform.qa.com/restapi/docs/swagger/
  baseURL: https://platform.qa.com/restapi
  tags:
  - Organization
  tags_raw:
  - Organizations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cloud-academy-organizations-api-openapi.yml
- aid: cloud-academy:cloud-academy-reports-api
  name: Cloud Academy Reports API
  description: The Reports API from Cloud Academy — 32 operation(s) for reports.
  humanURL: https://platform.qa.com/restapi/docs/swagger/
  baseURL: https://platform.qa.com/restapi
  tags:
  - Reports
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cloud-academy-reports-api-openapi.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/cloud-academy-plans-pricing.yml
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/cloud-academy-capability-edges.yml
  name: Cloud Academy Business Capability Map
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/cloud-academy-openapi-overlay.yaml
- type: Website
  url: https://cloudacademy.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://platform.qa.com/restapi/docs/swagger/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://support.platform.qa.com/hc/en-us/articles/360040446031-Cloud-Academy-API
- type: APIReference
  url: https://platform.qa.com/restapi/docs/swagger/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://support.platform.qa.com/hc/en-us/articles/360040446031-Cloud-Academy-API
- type: Support
  url: https://support.platform.qa.com/hc/en-us
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.qa.com/resources/blog/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/cloudacademy
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.platform.qa.com
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/cloud-academy-lifecycle.yml
- type: Pricing
  url: https://platform.qa.com/pricing/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://platform.qa.com/login/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.qa.com/legal-privacy/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.qa.com/legal-privacy/privacy-notice/
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/cloud-academy-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/cloud-academy-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/cloud-academy-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/cloud-academy-problem-types.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/cloud-academy-rate-limits.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/cloud-academy-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/cloud-academy-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/cloud-academy-data-model.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/cloud-academy-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/cloud-academy-llms.txt
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/cloud-academy-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cloud-academy-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

Cloud Academy API — frequently asked questions

Does Cloud Academy have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 3 APIs from Cloud Academy, including Cloud Academy Learning Management System API, Cloud Academy Organizations API and Cloud Academy Reports API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Cloud Academy API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for Cloud Academy, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Cloud Academy API?

Cloud Academy documents its authentication (oauth2 · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Cloud Academy Authentication.

How much does the Cloud Academy API cost?

Cloud Academy publishes its prices; its Discovery plan is $25* per user per year billed annually as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 10 pricing plans for Cloud Academy, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Cloud Academy API ready for AI agents?

Cloud Academy has a Kin Score of 56.3 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 30.4 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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