Building Data Lakes on AWS
offered by Coursera

Estd. 2012

Building Data Lakes on AWS
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Overview

Gain skills to design, implement and manage a secure and scalable data lake on AWS, enabling them to unlock the value of diverse data sources across their organization

Duration	11 hours
Start from	19th Nov'25
Mode of learning	Online
Difficulty level	Beginner
Official Website	Go to Website
Credential	Certificate

Building Data Lakes on AWS
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Highlights

Earn a certificate after completion of the course
Assignments and projects for real world exposure
Financial aid facility available

Building Data Lakes on AWS
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Course details

Who should do this course?

Data engineers, architects, and developers interested in building scalable data lakes on AWS

Individuals looking to learn best practices for data storage, security, and processing using cloud technologies

Professionals involved in big data analytics, data warehousing, and machine learning

What are the course deliverables?

Understanding the concept of data lakes and their use cases

Differences between data lakes and traditional data warehouses

Overview of key AWS services like S3 (Simple Storage Service), AWS Glue, and Amazon Athena

Using AWS Lake Formation for managing access control, security, and data cataloging

Designing and architecting a data lake on AWS

Organizing data in the lake, managing storage, and integrating data from multiple sources

More about this course

The course is designed to teach individuals how to build, manage, and analyze data lakes using Amazon Web Services (AWS).

data lake is a centralized repository that allows you to store vast amounts of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data at any scale

The course covers the fundamentals of data lakes, architecture, and tools provided by AWS for building them

Building Data Lakes on AWS
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Curriculum

Introduction to Data Lakes

Data ingestion, cataloging, and preparation

Building a data lake with AWS Lake Formation

Data processing and analytics

AWS Lake Formation additional configurations and capabilities

Modern data architecture on AWS

Building Data Lakes on AWS
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Faculty details

Rafael Lopes

Rafael “Raf” Lopes is a Brazilian Senior Cloud Technologist based out of New York, and has been determined to share as much knowledge as possible around the world to everyone with Internet access! Outside of AWS, you can find him taking street photographies around big cities, playing Pink Floyd solos on the guitar, cooking for his family, or enjoying videogames with his friends.

Alex G.

Alex G. is an IT professional with over 10 years of experience working in the industry. He has spent his career migrating companies of all sizes to the AWS cloud. he loves seeing how the cloud can empower individuals to build new and exciting IT solutions that weren’t possible before.