6 Best Cloud SQL Courses on Coursera
We compared 6 Cloud SQL courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $9.99 to $49.00. 5 of them teach the subject directly and 1 are built around a certification exam. 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
- 6
- Price range
- $9.99 – $49.00
- Providers
- Coursera
- Last updated
- 18 Sep 2026
How these 6 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, matched to "cloud sql" 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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Connect an App to a Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL Instance
Offered by Google Cloud
This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console. In this lab you will create a Kubernetes cluster and deploy a simple application to that cluster. Then, connect the application to the supplied Cloud...
$9.99listed price -
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Cloud SQL with Terraform
Offered by Google Cloud
This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console. In this hands-on lab you will learn to create Cloud SQL instances with Terraform, then set up the Cloud SQL Proxy, testing the connection with both M...
$9.99listed price -
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Migrating On-premises MySQL Using a Continuous Database Migration Service Job
Offered by Google Cloud
This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console. In this lab, you migrate an on-premises MySQL database (running on a virtual machine) to Cloud SQL for MySQL using a continuous Database Migration Se...
$9.99listed price -
4
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...
$49.00listed price -
5
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...
$49.00listed price -
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Exam Prep: Google Cloud Professional Cloud Database Engineer
Offered by Whizlabs
This specialization is designed to help you build practical, real-world skills in designing, deploying, and managing databases using Google Cloud. Across five comprehensive courses, you’ll explore a wide range of databas...
$49.00listed price
Best Cloud SQL Courses on Coursera compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
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| 1 | Connect an App to a Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL Instance | Coursera | Google Cloud | $9.99 | View → |
| 2 | Cloud SQL with Terraform | Coursera | Google Cloud | $9.99 | View → |
| 3 | Migrating On-premises MySQL Using a Continuous Database Migration Serv... | Coursera | Google Cloud | $9.99 | View → |
| 4 | GCP: Database, Storage, and Networking | Coursera | Whizlabs | $49.00 | View → |
| 5 | GCP: Database and Storage | Coursera | Whizlabs | $49.00 | View → |
| 6 | Exam Prep: Google Cloud Professional Cloud Database Engineer | Coursera | Whizlabs | $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 6 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.
Courses versus exam preparation
1 of the entries here are built around a certification exam rather than teaching Cloud SQL from scratch. They are the right choice only if you already know the material and want to pass a specific exam; if you are starting out, pick one of the taught courses first and come back to exam preparation afterwards.
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 18 September 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.