The 9 best Microsoft Azure courses in 2026

In this course, you’ll explore the fundamentals of Azure Monitoring and Analytics. You’ll gain an in-depth understanding of the key features offered by Azure Monitor, setting the stage for proficient resource management. Learn to configure basic monitoring in Azure, enabling proactive measures to ensure optimal resource performance. Dive into the intricacies of setting up and managing alerts based on diverse conditions and thresholds, ensuring a timely response to critical situations. Delve further into advanced monitoring techniques, exploring the power of Log Analytics and custom dashboards.

This course equips you with the essential skills to take generative AI models from development to production. You will learn to implement robust MLOps practices on Azure, including automated CI/CD pipelines, version control, and full lifecycle management for your models. Simultaneously, you will dive into the critical principles of Responsible AI, using Microsoft’s framework to build fair, transparent, and ethical models that you can deploy with confidence.

Updated in May 2025. This course now 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 course. This course is designed to guide you through deploying a full MERN stack application on Azure Cloud using Azure DevOps pipelines for seamless CI/CD integration. You’ll start by getting a solid introduction to cloud infrastructure, the role of public cloud providers, and the fundamental models like IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. The course then dives in

This is the final course of the Exam Prep AZ-400: Microsoft DevOps Engineer Expert Specialization. This course focuses on understanding how to analyze metrics from instrumentation to gain insights and improve DevOps monitoring and workflows. Explore methods to automate security and compliance scanning for a more secure and efficient DevOps pipeline. Learn how to securely manage sensitive information in automation processes to protect critical data. Discover how to design and implement effective authentication and authorization methods to control access and secure resources. This course is di

Welcome to Microsoft Azure Security, Governance & Cloud Operations, a practical course designed for cloud learners, IT professionals, Azure administrators, cloud engineers, and technology professionals who want to understand how organizations manage, monitor, optimize, and modernize Azure environments. This course builds on foundational Azure concepts and introduces the operational capabilities required to manage cloud resources effectively. You’ll explore Azure migration, DevOps, AI and machine learning services, governance, cost management, monitoring, application services, and database sol

Updated in May 2025. This course now 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 course. This course provides a comprehensive introduction to Microsoft Azure for ASP.NET Core developers, helping you navigate essential Azure services and tools. You'll start by exploring Azure’s virtual machines and portals, learning how to create, connect, and manage these environments using various methods like PowerShell, Bash scripting, and ARM

Microsoft Azure is a service created by Microsoft to provide cloud computing for creating and managing applications and services using a cloud environment. Azure provides software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). The platform supports many programming languages and frameworks and can be used alone or in a multi-vendor cloud environment. This course focuses on the Fundamentals of Azure Infrastructure including infrastructure as a service. We’ll begin with understanding the subscription, configuring security and acquiring storage. Then y

In this course, you will explore how Generative AI is revolutionizing cloud management by automating workflows, optimizing resource allocation, and enhancing overall efficiency. Whether you’re a Cloud Solutions Architect, DevOps Professional, or AI Enthusiast, this course will provide hands-on experience with Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot, and other Azure services to streamline operations and reduce costs. Through real-world case studies, practical exercises, and expert insights, you’ll gain the skills needed to design, deploy, and manage AI-driven cloud solutions effectively. This course i

Production-grade deep learning starts with solid engineering foundations. This course builds the core PyTorch and Azure ML skills needed to build, train, and track deep learning models in enterprise environments. You'll implement feedforward neural networks from scratch, including forward and backward passes, loss functions, and optimizers, then move into custom PyTorch module design, efficient DataLoader pipelines, and mixed precision training with torch.compile. You'll configure Azure ML workspaces, compute clusters, and GPU targets using the Azure ML SDK v2, manage training jobs, and track