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15 Best Cloud Storage Courses on Coursera

We compared 15 Cloud Storage courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $9.99 to $79.00. 1 comes from a named university or institution, including University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. 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 – $79.00
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 storage" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.

The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.

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 $79.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.

  1. 1
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    Managing Big Data in Clusters and Cloud Storage

    Offered by Cloudera

    In this course, you'll learn how to manage big datasets, how to load them into clusters and cloud storage, and how to apply structure to the data so that you can run queries on it using distributed SQL engines like Apach...

    $49.00
    listed price
  2. 2
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade C Lowest price here

    Optimizing Cost with Google Cloud Storage

    Offered by Google Cloud

    This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console. In this lab you will configure Cloud Monitoring to observe bucket object access and deploy a Cloud Function to migrate objects from a Regional bucket...

    $9.99
    listed price
  3. 3
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade C

    Google Cloud Storage and Containers for AWS Professionals

    Offered by Google Cloud

    This is the third course of a four-course series for cloud architects and engineers with existing AWS knowledge, and it compares Google Cloud and AWS solutions and guides professionals on their use. This course focuses o...

    $49.00
    listed price
  4. 4
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade A University-backed

    Cloud Computing Applications, Part 1: Cloud Systems and Infrastructure

    Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Welcome to the Cloud Computing Applications course, the first part of a two-course series designed to give you a comprehensive view on the world of Cloud Computing and Big Data! In this first course we cover a multitude...

    $79.00
    listed price
  5. 5
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    Security in Google Cloud

    Offered by Google Cloud

    Through recorded lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy the components of a secure GCP solution, including Cloud Identity, the GCP Resource Manager, Cloud IAM, Google Virtual Private...

    $49.00
    listed price
  6. 6
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    Rust on GCP

    Offered by Pragmatic AI Labs

    Build production data pipelines on Google Cloud using Rust — predictable latency, single-digit-megabyte containers, and errors that fail at compile time instead of 3 a.m. This course shows engineers how to read from Clou...

    $49.00
    listed price
  7. 7
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    Microsoft 365 - File Management and Storage Tools

    Offered by Packt

    Master the essential file management and storage tools within Microsoft 365. This course provides you with a comprehensive understanding of Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint Online, two critical tools for enhancing colla...

    $49.00
    listed price
  8. 8
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    GCP: Database, Storage, and Networking

    Offered by Whizlabs

    GCP: Database, Storage, and Networking is the first course of Exam Prep: Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Specialization. The course provides comprehensive coverage of Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), includin...

    $49.00
    listed price
  9. 9
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    AWS Storage & Virtual Private Cloud

    Offered by Total Seminars

    This course covers two of the most heavily tested areas on the AWS Solutions Architect exam: AWS storage services and Virtual Private Cloud networking. Covering approximately 3 hours and 57 minutes of expert instruction,...

    $49.00
    listed price
  10. 10
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    Key Technologies in Data Analytics

    Offered by LearnQuest

    This specialization aims to prepare you for a role working in data analytics. The first course is Fundamentals of Data Analysis. You’ll be introduced to core concepts and you’ll learn about the tools and skills required...

    $49.00
    listed price
  11. 11
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    Google Slides

    Offered by Google Cloud

    With Google Slides, you can create and present professional presentations for sales, projects, training modules, and much more. Google Slides presentations are stored safely in the cloud. You build presentations right in...

    $49.00
    listed price
  12. 12
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    GCP: Database and Storage

    Offered by Whizlabs

    GCP: Database and Storage is the second course of Exam Prep: Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect Specialization. This course offers a comprehensive journey through advanced data, storage, analytics, and reliabi...

    $49.00
    listed price
  13. 13
    Coursera Certificate Grade B

    Modern Big Data Analysis with SQL

    Offered by Cloudera

    This Specialization teaches the essential skills for working with large-scale data using SQL. Maybe you are new to SQL and you want to learn the basics. Or maybe you already have some experience using SQL to query smalle...

    $49.00
    listed price
  14. 14
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    Amazon EFS Primer

    Offered by Amazon Web Services

    Are you a builder who is interested in using Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? Do you want to understand how to get started with Amazon EFS? Then, this course is for you! Amazon EFS provides a practical, serverles...

    $9.99
    listed price
  15. 15
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    Building Data Lakes on AWS

    Offered by Amazon Web Services

    The fundamental-level course is typically designed for individuals with a basic understanding of data storage and processing concepts but little to no prior experience with building data lakes on AWS specifically. After...

    $49.00
    listed price

Best Cloud Storage Courses on Coursera compared

# Course Provider Offered by Price
1 Managing Big Data in Clusters and Cloud Storage Coursera Cloudera $49.00 View →
2 Optimizing Cost with Google Cloud Storage Coursera Google Cloud $9.99 View →
3 Google Cloud Storage and Containers for AWS Professionals Coursera Google Cloud $49.00 View →
4 Cloud Computing Applications, Part 1: Cloud Systems and Infrastructure Coursera University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign $79.00 View →
5 Security in Google Cloud Coursera Google Cloud $49.00 View →
6 Rust on GCP Coursera Pragmatic AI Labs $49.00 View →
7 Microsoft 365 - File Management and Storage Tools Coursera Packt $49.00 View →
8 GCP: Database, Storage, and Networking Coursera Whizlabs $49.00 View →
9 AWS Storage & Virtual Private Cloud Coursera Total Seminars $49.00 View →
10 Key Technologies in Data Analytics Coursera LearnQuest $49.00 View →
11 Google Slides Coursera Google Cloud $49.00 View →
12 GCP: Database and Storage Coursera Whizlabs $49.00 View →
13 Modern Big Data Analysis with SQL Coursera Cloudera $49.00 View →
14 Amazon EFS Primer Coursera Amazon Web Services $9.99 View →
15 Building Data Lakes on AWS Coursera Amazon Web Services $49.00 View →

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 $9.99 to $79.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $69.01. The options are closely priced, so cost is unlikely to be your deciding factor. 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. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick. 1 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign — 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.

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