AWS Data Engineering Fundamentals

In today's data-driven world, organizations rely on cloud infrastructure to store and process massive amounts of information efficiently. Understanding how to design and manage reliable data pipelines is a crucial skill for modern technology professionals. This text-based course guides you from absolute beginner to a confident data practitioner, teaching you how to architect robust data solutions using industry-standard cloud services. What you'll learn: - Understand core data engineering terminology, storage paradigms, and pipeline architectures - Configure secure and scalable data lakes using S3 and AWS Glue Data Catalog - Process large-scale datasets using serverless ETL tools and analytics services - Query and analyze semi-structured data with modern table formats like Apache Iceberg - Orchestrate complex data workflows and monitor pipeline performance. You will start with foundational concepts of cloud storage and data ingestion before progressing to hands-on data transformation, querying, and workflow automation. Designed specifically for beginners, this course requires no prior cloud or data engineering experience. Begin reading today to build your foundation in cloud data engineering.