AWS Data Engineering Course Content - CourseDrill
1. AWS Data Engineering Fundamentals
What is Data Engineering?
ETL vs. ELT process
Data Warehousing vs. Data Lakes
Batch vs. Real-time
time data processing
Overview of AWS Data Engineering ecosystem
2. AWS Storage & Data Lake Solutions
Amazon S3:
o Storage classes and lifecycle policies
o Data partitioning and versioning
o Security and encryption best practices
AWS Lake Formation:
o Setting up a data lake
o Managing permissions and security
o Data ingestion and transformation
3. Data Processing & ETL with AWS Glue
AWS Glue Architecture & Components
Glue Data Catalog & Schema Evolution
ETL job creation using AWS Glue Studio
Custom ETL scripts using Python & PySpark
Automating ETL jobs with AWS Glue Workflows
4. SQL for Data Analysis & Querying Data on AWS
SQL Basics & Advanced d Concepts
Querying structured & semi
semi-structured data using AWS Athena
Running optimized SQL queries on AWS Redshift
Using Redshift Spectrum for external data querying
Performance tuning techniques for AWS databases
5. AWS Data Warehousing – Amazon Redshift
Understanding Redshift Architecture (Columnar storage, MPP)
Data loading from S3 using COPY command
Managing tables, partitions, and schema in Redshift
Performance optimization & query tuning
Redshift vs. Snowflake vs. Databricks comparison
6. AWS EMR & Apache Spark for Big Data Processing
Introduction to AWS EMR (Elastic MapReduce)
Running Apache Spark, Hadoop, and Presto on EMR
Building scalable data pipelines using Spark on EMR
Real-time
time stream processing with Sp
Spark Streaming & Kinesis
Cost optimization and auto
auto-scaling strategies
7. Python for Data Analysis in AWS
Using Python for Data Engineering
Data manipulation with Pandas & NumPy
Working with JSON, CSV, and Parquet formats in AWS
Automating AWS workflows witwith Boto3 SDK
8. AWS Databricks for Advanced Data Processing
What is Databricks?
Databricks vs. AWS EMR vs. Redshift
Using Databricks for Big Data & AI workloads
Managing Delta Lake for optimized storage
Integrating Databricks with S3, Glue, and Redshift
9. Real-Time
Time Data Processing & Streaming
AWS Kinesis (Data Streams, Firehose, Analytics)
Event-driven
driven architecture with AWS Lambda & SQS
Streaming ETL using Kinesis and AWS Glue
Apache Kafka integration with AWS
10. Data Cloud & DevOps for Data Engineering
CI/CD for Data Pipelines
Using Terraform for AWS Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
AWS CodePipeline for automation
Monitoring data pipelines with AWS CloudWatch & CloudTrail
Security & compliance best practices for data engineering
11. Data Visualization & Bus
Business Intelligence
Amazon QuickSight
Connecting BI tools with AWS Redshift & Athena
Dashboard creation and report automation
Best practices for scalable analytics solutions
12. Hands-on
on Projects & Real
Real-World Use Cases
Building an end-to-end AWS Data Pipeli
Pipeline
Implementing Data Lake with AWS S3, Glue & Athena
Real-time Streaming Data Processing using AWS Kinesis & Spark
Creating a Data Warehouse with Redshift & BI Reporting
Deploying Databricks for Big Data Analytics
AWS Certification preparation (AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty)