AWS Certified data engineer associate 2025 - Hands on!

This might be the hardest associate-level certification AWS offers. Most people underestimate the AWS Data Engineer Associate exam (DEA-C01). They think "Oh, it's just associate level, how tough could it be?" Then they sit for the exam and realize they're facing questions about Kinesis data streams, MSK configurations, Glue DataBrew transformations, and complex data pipeline orchestration that would challenge even seasoned engineers. Here's why this course is different: You're learning from the dream team. Stéphane Maarek has taught 1.5 million students AWS (seriously, half a million reviews), and Frank Kane spent 9 years inside Amazon building the very systems you'll be tested on. Together, they've created the most comprehensive prep course you'll find anywhere. We're covering the entire AWS data universe: Kinesis for streaming, Lambda for processing, S3 for storage, Glue for cataloging, EMR for big data processing, Redshift for warehousing, SageMaker for ML, and dozens of other services that work together in real data pipelines. The hands-on approach matters. This isn't about memorizing service names - you'll actually configure these services, watch them work together, and understand the design decisions that separate good data engineers from great ones.