AWS Data Engineer Roadmap
A free, hands-on path through the AWS services that show up in almost every real data platform — S3, Glue, Athena, and the patterns that connect them.
Each chapter is a real lab, not a slide deck: you build every resource yourself in the AWS console, with screenshots for every step. No signup, no paywall — work through it at your own pace, or follow along live in one of beCloudReady's free sessions.
Introduction to AWS: Console, Regions & IAM
Sign in to the AWS console, lock down your region, and see how an IAM role's trust relationship actually works — the orientation every later AWS data engineering lab assumes you already have.
Build an AWS Data Lake with S3, Glue & Athena
Build a working serverless data lake on AWS by hand: S3 buckets, a Glue Data Catalog, two crawlers, a PySpark ETL job that converts CSV to partitioned Parquet, and SQL queries in Athena — with a side-by-side cost comparison at the end.
Want to build this live, with sandbox AWS credentials provisioned for you and questions answered in real time? beCloudReady runs free webinars and a Cloud & DevOps cohort that use this exact roadmap as a core module.
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