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AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate 2026 - Hands On!
What you'll learn
- Maximize your odds of passing the AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate (DEA-C01) exam
- Design and implement data pipelines with AWS to ingest, store, and transform data
- Choose and design data stores, data models, data schemas, and data lifecycles.
- Maintain, operationalize, and orchestrate data pipelines with EventBridge, Airflow, AWS Step Functions,, and more
- Apply security, governance, and privacy best practices to your AWS data pipelines.
- Create data lakes with S3, Glue, Redshift and more
- Process batch and streaming data with Kinesis, EMR, containers, Lambda, and more
Requirements
- You must have an AWS account to follow along with the hands-on activities. The services used will cost a few dollars in AWS fees.
- AWS recommends 2-3 years of experience in data engineering, and 1-2 years of hands-on experience with AWS services.
Description
NEW: Updated for version 1.1 of the exam (2026) and now includes an additional practice exam
The AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate Exam (DEA-C01 or DE1-C01) is one of the most challenging associate-level certification exams you can take from Amazon Web Services, and even among the most challenging overall. Passing it tells employers in no uncertain terms that your knowledge of data pipelines is wide and deep. But, even experienced technologists need to prepare heavily for this exam. This course sets you up for success, by covering all of the data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration technologies on the exam and how they fit together.
Best-selling Udemy instructors Frank Kane and Stéphane Maarek have teamed up to deliver the most comprehensive and hands-on prep course we've seen. Together, they've taught over 4 million people around the world. This course combines Stéphane's depth on AWS with Frank's experience in wrangling massive data sets, gleaned during his 9-year career at Amazon itself.
The world of data engineering on AWS includes a dizzying array of technologies and services. Just a sampling of the topics we cover in-depth are:
Streaming and transforming data with Amazon Kinesis and Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK)
Queuing messages with Simple Queue Service (SQS)
Orchestrating data pipelines with Amazon AppFlow, Amazon EventBridge, AWS Step Functions, and Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA)
Transitioning from small to big data with the AWS Database Migration Service (DMS), AWS DataSync, Snow Family, Transfer Family, and more
Storing massive data lakes with the Simple Storage Service (S3) and managing data lifecycles
Optimizing transactional queries with DynamoDB, DocumentDB, Keyspaces, and MemoryDB
Tying your big data systems together with AWS Lambda
Making unstructured data query-able with AWS Glue, Glue DataBrew, and Lake Formation
Processing data at unlimited scale with Elastic MapReduce, including Apache Spark
Applying advanced machine learning algorithms at scale with Amazon SageMaker
Searching and analyzing petabyte-scale data with Amazon Opensearch (formerly Elasticsearch) Service
Querying S3 data lakes with Amazon Athena
Hosting massive-scale data warehouses with Redshift and Redshift Spectrum
Integrating smaller data with your big data, using the Relational Database Service (RDS)
Keeping your data secure with encryption, KMS, Macie, Secrets Manager, IAM, and more
Managing and governing your systems with CloudFormation, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, AWS Config, and more
Integrating data with Generative AI applications using Bedrock, Vector Stores, Aurora, Kendra, and Knowledge Bases.
Throughout the course, you'll have lots of opportunities to reinforce your learning with hands-on demos, two full-length practice exams, and additional practice questions. We'll also arm you with some valuable test-taking tips and strategies along the way.
Although this is an associate-level exam, it is one of the more challenging ones. AWS recommends having a few years of both data engineering experience and AWS experience before tackling it. This exam is not intended for AWS beginners.
You want to go into the AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate Exam with confidence, and that's what this course delivers. Hit the enroll button, and we're excited to see you in the course... and ultimately to see you get your certification!
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Instructor
My name is Stéphane Maarek, I am passionate about Cloud Computing, and I will be your instructor in this course. I teach about AWS certifications, focusing on helping my students improve their professional proficiencies in AWS.
I have already taught 3,000,000+ students and gotten 500,000+ reviews throughout my career in designing and delivering these certifications and courses!
With AWS becoming the centerpiece of today's modern IT architectures, I have decided it is time for students to learn how to be an AWS Data Analytics Professional. So, let’s kick start the course! You are in good hands!
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Instructor
Hey, I'm Frank Kane, and I'm also co-instructing this course. I spent nine years working for Amazon from the inside as a senior engineer and senior manager, and I'm best known for my top-selling courses in "big data", data analytics, machine learning, AI, Apache Spark, system design, and Elasticsearch.
I've been teaching on Udemy since 2015, where I've reached over one million students all around the world!
I've worked hard to keep this course up to date with the latest developments in AWS data engineering, and to make sure you're prepared for the latest version of this exam. Let's dive in and get you ready!
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This course also comes with:
Lifetime access to all future updates
A responsive instructor in the Q&A Section
Udemy Certificate of Completion Ready for Download
A 30 Day "No Questions Asked" Money Back Guarantee!
Join us in this course if you want to pass the AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate Exam DEA-C01 and master the AWS platform!
Who this course is for:
- Technologists seeking certification in data engineering technologies on Amazon Web Services
Instructors
Sundog Education's mission is to make highly valuable career skills in data engineering, data science, generative AI, AWS, and machine learning accessible to everyone in the world. Our consortium of expert instructors shares our knowledge in these emerging fields with you, at prices anyone can afford.
As a senior manager at Amazon during its early years, Frank Kane led large technical teams, managed multi-year projects, and served as a "bar-raiser" - interviewing thousands and hiring hundreds across the company.
Frank holds 26 issued patents in machine learning and personalization. After 9 years at Amazon and IMDb, he founded Sundog Education and has since taught over 1.1 million people in AI, ML, AWS, system design, and tech leadership. Frank has been teaching full-time for over 10 years - but is always building projects on the side with the latest emerging technologies, to better explain them to you!
Our teaching style is to simplify complex concepts - once you cut through all the notation and jargon, most of AI and machine learning is pretty easy to understand. We make these advanced topics accessible to anyone with a modest technical background, always using plain English and examples to drive it home. We make learning easy, hands-on, and fun.
Frank spent 9 years at Amazon and IMDb, developing and managing the technology that automatically delivers product and movie recommendations to hundreds of millions of customers, all the time. As an Amazon “bar raiser,” he held veto authority over hiring decisions across the company, interviewed over 1,000 candidates, and hired and managed hundreds. He holds 17 issued patents in the fields of distributed computing, data mining, and machine learning. In 2012, Frank left to start his own company, Sundog Software, which has taught over one million students around the world about machine learning, data engineering, and managing engineers.
Due to our volume of students, I am unable to respond to private messages; please post your questions within the Q&A of your course. Thanks for understanding.
Stephane is a solutions architect, consultant and software developer that has a particular interest in all things related to Cloud & Big Data. He's also a many-times best seller instructor on Udemy for his courses in AWS and Apache Kafka.
[See FAQ below to see in which order you can take my courses]
Stéphane is recognized as an AWS Hero and is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional & AWS Certified DevOps Professional. He loves to teach people how to use the AWS properly, to get them ready for their AWS certifications, and most importantly for the real world.
He also loves Apache Kafka. He used on the Program Committee organizing the Kafka Summit in New York, London and San Francisco. He also was an active member of the Apache Kafka community, and has authored blogs on Medium and the guest blog for Confluent. He also has co-founded Conduktor, a prominent company in the Kafka ecosystem.
During his spare time, Stéphane composes piano music, that he publishes online under the artist name Makera ?
FAQ: In which order should you learn?...
AWS Cloud: Start with AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate, then move on to AWS Certified Developer Associate and then AWS Certified SysOps Administrator. Afterwards you can either do AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional or AWS Certified DevOps Professional, or a specialty certification of your choosing. You can also learn about AI with the AWS Certified AI Practitioner course!
Apache Kafka: Start with Apache Kafka for Beginners, then you can learn Connect, Streams and Schema Registry if you're a developer, and Setup and Monitoring courses if you're an admin. Both tracks are needed to pass the Confluent Kafka certification.