15 Best Cloud-Native Courses on Coursera
We compared 15 Cloud-native courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $9.99 to $49.00. 3 come from a named university or institution, including IBM, Georgia Institute of Technology and Vanderbilt University. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 15
- Price range
- $9.99 – $49.00
- Providers
- Coursera
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2026
How these 15 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, matched to "cloud-native" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $9.99 to $49.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Coursera MOOC / Non-creditCloud-Native – Microservices, Kubernetes & CI/CD
Offered by Packt
This specialization features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress throug...
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Coursera MOOC / Non-creditNGINX Essentials: Web Server to Cloud-Native
Offered by KodeKloud
The NGINX Essentials Specialization provides a production-focused roadmap to mastering web infrastructure, from core server configuration to cloud-native traffic management. This hands-on series transforms engineers into...
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Cloud Application Development Foundations
Offered by IBM
This program will equip you with all the key skills and technical know-how to kickstart your career as a full-stack Cloud Native Developer. Guided by experts at IBM, you will learn to build your own cloud-based applicati...
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Cloud Applications
Offered by Georgia Institute of Technology
This course provides an introduction to the development and support for Cloud-native applications, more specifically it delves into best practices of developing applications; migrating on premise applications to the clou...
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Scalable Microservices for Developers
Offered by Vanderbilt University
Master the art of building scalable and efficient microservices using Java and the Spring framework in this Coursera specialization. Dive deep into the intricacies of Spring Boot and Spring Cloud, equipping yourself with...
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Coursera MOOC / Non-creditWeb API Development with ASP.NET Core 8
Offered by Packt
This Specialization provides a structured path to building modern Web APIs with ASP.NET Core 8, covering design, development, security, testing, deployment, and scalability. It begins with Web API design principles and A...
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Coursera CertificateAI Systems Reliability & Security
Offered by Coursera
Build production-ready AI systems with enterprise-grade reliability, security, and scalability across multi-cloud environments. This comprehensive specialization equips you with the architectural expertise to design, dep...
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Coursera MOOC / Non-creditArchitect Resilient LLM Microservices for Scale
Offered by Coursera
This course is designed for intermediate-level software developers, cloud engineers, and system architects responsible for building and scaling LLM applications. As AI systems become more complex, a resilient and scalabl...
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Coursera MOOC / Non-creditDocker and Kubernetes Masterclass: From Beginner to Advanced
Offered by Packt
Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as yo...
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Coursera CertificateIntermediate Java Development: Spring, Databases, Deployment
Offered by SkillUp
According to Dice.com the average Java/J2EE developer earns just over USD 126,000 annually. This intermediate-level specialization is ideal for advancing your Java development skills and expanding your access to opportun...
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Coursera MOOC / Non-creditImplementing Open Policy Agent for Policy-Driven Control
Offered by Coursera
In today’s cloud-native environments, security and compliance can no longer rely on manual oversight—policy must be automated, portable, and enforceable across platforms. Implementing Open Policy Agent (IOA) equips learn...
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Coursera MOOC / Non-creditMicroservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud
Offered by Packt
This specialization guides learners through building and deploying microservices using Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Kubernetes. The first course introduces core microservices concepts, Spring Boot fundamentals, coopera...
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Coursera MOOC / Non-creditDatadog: Performance Monitoring Tool
Offered by Coursera
Datadog: Performance Monitoring and APM for Cloud Environments is an intermediate-level course designed to equip DevOps engineers, site reliability engineers, and developers with comprehensive application performance mon...
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Linux Daemon with Go: Build a Webpage Database Crawler
Offered by Coursera
Do you know that over 75% of projects in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, including Docker and Kubernetes, are written in Go? This Guided Project was created to help learners create database applications that can r...
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Coursera MOOC / Non-creditSecuring and Integrating Components of your Application en Français
Offered by Google Cloud
Dans ce cours, les développeurs d'applications apprennent à concevoir et développer des applications cloud natives qui s'intègrent parfaitement aux services gérés de Google Cloud. À travers un ensemble de présentations,...
$49.00listed price
Best Cloud-Native Courses on Coursera compared
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