15 Best Microservices Courses on Coursera
We compared 15 Microservices courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $9.99 to $49.00. 2 come from a named university or institution, including Duke University 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 "microservices" 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 $49.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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1
Building Rust AWS Lambda Microservices with Cargo Lambda
Offered by Duke University
In this project, you will learn how to build an AWS Lambda function with Rust using Cargo Lambda. We will create a simple "Marco Polo" Lambda that responds with "Polo" when it receives "Marco" in the request. You will le...
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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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3
Spring, JPA, Testing, and Legacy Microservices
Offered by Packt
This course 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 through the co...
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4
Microservices Architecture and Communication Patterns
Offered by Packt
This course 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 through the co...
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5
Architect 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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Microservices 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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Master Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud
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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8
Foundations of Microservices with Spring Boot
Offered by Packt
This course provides a solid foundation in designing and implementing microservices using Spring Boot. Microservices architecture enables scalable, maintainable, and modular applications, a key skill in modern software d...
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9
Introduction to Microservices with .NET 8 and CQRS
Offered by Packt
This course 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 through the co...
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10
Microservices Architecture: Design Patterns & Principles
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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11
Application Development using Microservices and Serverless
Offered by IBM
Welcome to this introductory course on microservices and serverless, essential technologies for cloud native and application modernization workloads. Rather than building large applications, known as monoliths, that perf...
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12
Cloud-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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13
Refactor and Test LLM Microservices
Offered by Coursera
As AI applications are built at record speed, many teams are accumulating significant "technical debt," leading to brittle, unpredictable, and expensive systems. "Refactor and Test LLM Microservices" is an intermediate c...
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14
Microservices Architecture for AI Systems
Offered by Coursera
This Specialization equips software developers, ML engineers, and system architects with the skills to design, build, and deploy production-grade AI systems using microservices architecture. Beginning with LLM fundamenta...
$49.00listed price -
15
.NET 8 Microservices – DDD, CQRS & Clean Architecture
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...
$49.00listed price
Best Microservices Courses on Coursera 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 $9.99 to $49.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $39.01. 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. 2 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Duke University and Vanderbilt University — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
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