7 Best Data Lake Courses for Beginners
We compared 7 Data Lake courses currently listed on Udemy and edX, priced from $19.99 to $209.00. 4 of them teach the subject directly and 3 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
- 7
- Price range
- $19.99 – $209.00
- Providers
- Udemy, edX
- Last updated
- 18 Sep 2026
How these 7 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Udemy, edX, matched to "data lake" 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 $19.99 to $209.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Data Lake Fundamentals: Key Concepts and Best practices
Hello! Welcome to the "Data Lake Fundamentals" course!!Did you know companies generate massive amounts of data every year? Data that, if used correctly, can transform businesses.Traditional data management solutions stru...
$19.99listed price -
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Introduction to Designing Data Lakes on AWS
Offered by Amazon Web Services
In this class, we will help you understand how to create and operate a data lake in a secure and scalable way, without previous knowledge of data science!
$209.00listed price -
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Practical Data Engineering in GCP: Beginner to Advanced
In this course, we will be creating a data lake using Google Cloud Storage and bring data warehouse capabilites to the data lake to form the lakehouse architecture using Google BigQuery. We will be building four no code...
$19.99listed price -
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![Azure Data Engineer Technologies for Beginners [Bundle]](https://i.udemycdn.com/course/480x270/2537858_ccee_6.jpg)
Azure Data Engineer Technologies for Beginners [Bundle]
Why Microsoft Azure Data Engineer?Microsoft Azure Date Engineering is one of the fastest-growing and in-demand occupations among Data Science practitioners. According to a 2019 Dice report, there was an 88% year-over-yea...
$34.99listed price -
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DP-900 Azure Data Fundamentals Exam Prep 2026
Step into the world of modern data and cloud technology with a practical, real-world focused learning experience designed to build strong foundational understanding of Azure data concepts.In today’s digital ecosystem, or...
$19.99listed price -
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DP 900 - Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals
Are you preparing for the DP-900: Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals certification exam? Our expert-designed mock test series with 300+ high-quality questions is tailored to help you master Azure data concepts, databases,...
$19.99listed price -
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AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
Course Updatesv 8.0 - March 2024A complete course refresh has been conducted for the course. All videos of the course have been updated. This was done to align the course with any newer changes to the exam objective. And...
$149.99listed price
Best Data Lake Courses for Beginners compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Data Lake Fundamentals: Key Concepts and Best practices | Udemy | — | $19.99 | View → |
| 2 | Introduction to Designing Data Lakes on AWS | edX | Amazon Web Services | $209.00 | View → |
| 3 | Practical Data Engineering in GCP: Beginner to Advanced | Udemy | — | $19.99 | View → |
| 4 | Azure Data Engineer Technologies for Beginners [Bundle] | Udemy | — | $34.99 | View → |
| 5 | DP-900 Azure Data Fundamentals Exam Prep 2026 | Udemy | — | $19.99 | View → |
| 6 | DP 900 - Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals | Udemy | — | $19.99 | View → |
| 7 | AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals | Udemy | — | $149.99 | 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 7 priced courses on this page run from $19.99 to $209.00, with the middle of the range around $19.99 — a spread of $189.01. 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 Udemy and edX. 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.
Courses versus exam preparation
3 of the entries here are built around a certification exam rather than teaching Data Lake 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.