Cloud Administrator Simulator

CLOUD ADMINISTRATOR SIMULATOR You just joined Northstar Cloud Operations as a Cloud Administrator on the NORTH-1 region of Nimbus Cloud, a fictional public-cloud platform. The estate is live: virtual machines are serving real traffic, autoscaling groups are reacting to load, and the ticket queue never stays empty for long. It's on you to keep everything running, secure, and inside budget. This isn't a trivia quiz with a cloud-console skin. You operate an actual running estate: VMs with their own CPU/memory telemetry, VNets and subnets wired together with real routing, security groups that either pass traffic or silently block it, load balancers checking backend health on a timer, and a monthly cost forecast that reacts to what you actually provision. Nothing is scripted to just work — if a health probe path is wrong, the load balancer marks the backend unhealthy exactly like a real one would. HOW IT WORKS • Manage Virtual Machines — start, stop, resize, and delete instances, and tune autoscaling group limits and thresholds • Design the network — VNets, subnets, internet/NAT gateways, and Security Group allow/deny rules that decide what can actually reach what • Keep Load Balancers healthy — backend pools, health probe paths, and traffic algorithms • Run Object Storage and Managed Databases — versioning, lifecycle rules, replication, backups, and public-access exposure • Enforce IAM & Governance — user permissions, MFA, service identities, and org-wide policies • Watch Monitoring and Cost Management — estate-wide gauges, an activity log, cost-by-service breakdowns, and forecast-vs-budget tracking • Work incident tickets end to end — investigate across the same signals a real cloud console would show you, pick a corrective action, and confirm the metric actually stabilizes before you close the ticket CONSEQUENCES ARE REAL Widen a security group to ALLOW ANY and your reputation takes the hit the moment it's live. Leave an object bucket public and it stays a liability until you secure it. Delete a VM that's still in a load balancer's backend pool and you can take down the very service you were trying to fix. Skip investigating and jump straight to an action, and you can apply the wrong fix to a system that was never the actual root cause. WHAT YOU'RE RUNNING Load balancer health-probe mismatches, security group misconfigurations that cut off a production database, autoscaling policies quietly driving up cost, availability-zone outages, and publicly exposed storage buckets are fully playable now, with more incident categories built into the same engine for future updates. BUILD YOUR CAREER Earn budget and XP for every ticket you close cleanly. Spend it on compute capacity, better monitoring coverage, and platform upgrades as you climb from Cloud Administrator toward the top of Northstar Cloud Operations' ladder. • Fully playable in English and Turkish • No account, no login, no internet connection required • Play fully offline after the first load — your progress saves automatically on your device • Mobile-first design for one-handed play, with full touch, mouse, and keyboard support Nimbus Cloud is a fictional platform built entirely for this game — no real cloud provider, API, or account is involved anywhere. The estate doesn't manage itself.