Data Engineering on AWS

Module 1: Data Engineering Roles and Key Concepts

• The role of a data engineer
• Data discovery for a data analytics system
• AWS services for data workflows
• Continuous integration and continuous delivery
• Networking considerations

Module 2:Designing and Implementing Data Lakes

• Data lake introduction
• Data lake storage
• Ingest data
• Catalog data
• Transform data
• Serve data for consumption
• Lab: Setting up a Data Lake on AWS

Module 3: Optimizing and Securing Data Lake Solutions

• Optimizing performance
• Security using Lake Formation
• Setting permissions with Lake Formation
• Security and governance
• Troubleshooting
• Lab: Automating Data Lake Creation using AWS Lake Formation Blueprints

Module 4: Data Warehouse Architecture and Design Principles

• Introduction to data warehouses
• Amazon Redshift overview
• Ingesting data into Amazon Redshift
• Processing data
• Serving data for consumption
• Lab: Setting up a Data Warehouse using Amazon Redshift Serverless

Module 5: Performance Optimization Techniques for Data Warehouses

• Monitoring and optimization options
• Data optimization in Amazon Redshift
• Query optimization in Amazon Redshift
• Data orchestration

Module 6: Security and Access Control for Data Warehouses

• Authentication and access control in Amazon Redshift
• Data security in Amazon Redshift
• Lab: Working with Amazon Redshift

Module 7: Designing Batch Data Pipelines

• Introduction to batch data pipelines
• Designing a batch data pipeline
• Ingesting batch data

Module 8: Implementing Strategies for Batch Data Pipelines

• Processing and transforming data
• Transforming data formats
• Integrating your data
• Cataloging data
• Serving data for consumption
• Lab: A Day in the Life of a Data Engineer

Module 9: Optimizing, Orchestrating, and Securing Batch Data Pipelines

• Optimizing the batch data pipeline
• Orchestrating the batch data pipeline
• Securing the batch data pipeline
• Lab: Orchestrating Data Processing in Spark using AWS Step Functions

Module 10: Streaming Data Architecture Patterns

• Introduction to streaming data pipelines
• Ingesting data from stream sources
• Storing streaming data
• Processing streaming data
• Analyzing streaming data
• Lab: Streaming Analytics with Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink

Module 11: Optimizing and Securing Streaming Solutions

• Optimizing a streaming data solution
• Securing a streaming data pipeline
• Lab: Access Control with Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka

Module 12: Compliance and Cost Optimization

• Compliance considerations
• Cost optimization tools

Module 13: Course Wrap-Up