Sololearn is looking like a good platform to learn from, thank you so much recommending Sololearn. Will I not get any code demos without getting the premium account?
I honestly haven't noticed any difference besides the exercises, only thing is that the need for "points" to do code exercises annoyed me so I just bought the pro account.
IT is a very vast field and it pays to be specialist in one or two domains. I have been down the same road as you. Given that you already have some qualifications, there are 2 approaches you could take:
, and that's a great thing for the not so disciplined people. For the rest there are a plethora of good free python courses available in youtube. If you are working try to check if your employer gives free subscription of linkedin learning or not as majority in IT have started providing this. 
For me, the paid thing works really well. I get lazy when I am doing the free courses, so I end up playing Dota 2 instead of learning to code. When I pay for the courses I give them full attention.Udemy paid courses are worth for the sole reason that you pay for it means you sure will ensure it is completed
The good thing about python is it's a good way to start. You can easily move into machine learning(scikit learn) , web development(django, flask) , game development(pygame) , automation (selenium) fields because of the existing libraries.
The bad thing is that you might get judged by the og engineers using Java/c++ in interviews as python is seen as the easy language. But if the JD is exclusively for a python developer you are good to go.
I see python as an essential language tool, especially for ml and automation purposes, have used it a lot in my field for side projects.
What makes cloud computing unglamorous? From what I understand, people who do cloud computing are paid a lot. Wouldn't money make this field glamorous?
Take look at these: https://www.udemy.com/courses/it-and-software/network-and-security/
It is unglamorous in the sense that Cloud is considered a support infrastructure for the main IT product. If you are working in a company whose main business is cloud (Like Dell EMC), certainly it won't be unglamorous. Technological improvements in cloud infra also don't make it to headlines. So in some ways your work, while it may be appreciated, may not be very visible to the outside world. I am not suggesting that this should be a criteria for selecting a field. It is a field where you keep chipping away and there aren't really any big bang moments.
By headlines do you mean headlines in just the tech community or in general?
A bit of both. Of course, most jobs don't make it to public headlines. Cloud is entirely a B2B market space and your clients are typically CTOs of other companies who are looking for data migration, security, restoration, replication etc. By their very nature these are tasks in which the absence of a problem is rarely appreciated, no matter how much effort has gone into preventing them. Just like tech support. It is considered a given. Your service/product is simply expected to perform. When it doesn't, all hell breaks loose. Secondly, feature development takes more time and more rigorous testing.
Thank you so much for all of this info. I am considering pursuing cloud computing, do you have any advice?
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