15 Best AWS Courses for Beginners
We compared 15 AWS courses currently listed on Coursera and Udemy, priced from $19.99 to $149.99. 1 comes from a named university or institution, including Royal Holloway, University of London & University of London. 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
- $19.99 – $149.99
- Providers
- Coursera, Udemy
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2026
How these 15 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, Udemy, matched to this topic 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 $19.99 to $149.99, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Introduction to Computer Security
Offered by Royal Holloway, University of London & University of London
The purpose of this short four-week course is to introduce the topic of computer system security. We initially look at a short basic introduction to computer system core components and functions and then extend this to c...
$49.00listed price -
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Udemy CertificateAWS Beginner to Advance Guide
#AWS Beginner to Advance Guide#AWS Beginner to Advance Guide for all people who are interested to learn AWS in Details and curious to know the how the things are going on like VPC, Subnet, Route Table, internet Gateway (...
$59.99listed price -
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Udemy MOOC / Non-creditAWS Essentials: Cloud, AWS IAM, & Amazon S3 for Beginners
Build a strong foundation in AWS — Cloud concepts, IAM, the AWS CLI, and Amazon S3 — through clear explanations, hands-on demonstrations, and section-end quizzes designed to reinforce your learning.This course is ideal f...
$29.99listed price -
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![[old] Building AWS Basic Architecture for super beginners](https://i.udemycdn.com/course/480x270/3887162_8968_3.jpg)
[old] Building AWS Basic Architecture for super beginners
This course is a legacy course. The UI of the AWS console in this course is an old version.Through this Udemy course, complete beginners of both AWS and IT in general will learn how to implement practical IT infrastructu...
$19.99listed price -
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Udemy CertificateAWS Essentials: Amazon EC2 & VPC Networking for Beginners
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence. AI tools were used only in a few quiz questions, Role Play scenarios, and images. All were reviewed and edited by the instructor.Build the AWS compute and networki...
$69.99listed price -
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Udemy CertificateAWS For Absolute Beginners: Learn AWS From Ground Up
The cloud is slowly becoming an important piece of technology in today’s world. In addition to being a great data storage system, it is also becoming the standard for creating manageable and scalable web application serv...
$39.99listed price -
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Udemy CertificateIntroduction to Using and Learning Splunk
We begin with covering the big tech landscape and where Splunk fits within that picture. Splunk is the only development platform for true big data that preserves logs in their original unstructured format for fast...
$19.99listed price -
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Udemy CertificateIntroduction to AWS Pentesting
The AWS Pentesting course is designed to provide learners with the knowledge and skills required to conduct penetration testing on AWS (Amazon Web Services) cloud environments. The course covers various topics related to...
$149.99listed price -
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Udemy MOOC / Non-creditML Ops: Beginner
ML Ops topped LinkedIn’s Emerging Jobs ranking, with a recorded growth of 9.8 times in five years.Most individuals looking to enter the data industry possess machine learning skills. However, most data scientists are una...
$29.99listed price -
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Udemy CertificateTerraform for Beginners: Code, Deploy, and Scale
Dive into the world of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with our comprehensive course designed specifically for beginners. This course demystifies the complexities of cloud infrastructure management using Terraform, one of t...
$19.99listed price -
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Udemy CertificateAWS Cloud Development Kit - From Beginner to Professional
Ready to build cloud applications faster, safer, and smarter?If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by endless AWS console clicks, fragile manual scripts, or mountains of JSON/YAML templates then you’re not alone. Most cloud pr...
$44.99listed price -
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Udemy CertificateMaster Class: Terraform for AWS (Beginner to Pro)
Why this course ?In current Cloud Industry, Terraform is considered as one of the leaders for Infrastructure as a code platform. With its flexibility and compatibility with many different cloud providers like (AWS, Azure...
$99.99listed price -
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Udemy MOOC / Non-creditAWS Guide for Beginners - Your Cloud Journey Begins Here!
This AWS guide is made for somebody who is getting started with their cloud/DevOps journey.This guide will help you get a clear picture of the entire AWS ecosystem, it's services, AWS job roles, certifications, roadmap t...
$19.99listed price -
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Udemy CertificateAbsolute Beginners Introduction to Amazon Web Services (AWS)
I am pretty sure that you might have heard about AWS being one of the highest paying job roles in today's industry, If yes, then what are you waiting for ? Add AWS to your skill set and get a boost in your career.Are you...
$34.99listed price -
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Udemy CertificateHands-On Introduction to Web Serving with NGINX
Welcome to Hands-On Introduction to Web Serving with NGINX — a practical and beginner-friendly course designed to help you understand how modern websites and apps are actually served to users.I’m Lucas, a tech lead in an...
$19.99listed price
Best AWS Courses for Beginners compared
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 15 priced courses on this page run from $19.99 to $149.99, with the middle of the range around $34.99 — a spread of $130.00. That is a wide gap for one subject. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from Coursera and Udemy. The platforms differ in how they sell: some charge once per course, others expect a subscription, and the listed price is not always what you pay at checkout after a promotion. 1 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Royal Holloway, University of London & University of London — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
Open the provider’s own page and check three things this comparison cannot tell you: when the course was last updated, what the syllabus actually covers in its later sections, and what recent learners say. Prices shown here are the provider’s listed price when we last rebuilt this page on 30 August 2026 — they change often, and a promotion can move them substantially. We earn a commission if you enrol through our links, which costs you nothing and never affects the order courses appear in.