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Migrating Data to AWS: DMS and Best Practices
AWS Database Migration Service copies databases into AWS and keeps them in step with ongoing changes. This guide explains its components, the three task types, what DMS writes to S3 for a data lake, how to turn its change records into a current table on real data, and the documented practices for load and validation.
AWS Data Engineering Projects for Your Portfolio
Five AWS data engineering projects for a portfolio, on real public data: a serverless lake queried with Athena, event-driven ingestion with Lambda, an orchestrated Glue pipeline, a streaming path through Kinesis and Firehose, and a Redshift warehouse. Each lists the services, what it proves and cost cautions.
VPC Basics for Data Engineers on AWS
Data engineers meet Amazon VPC when a job cannot reach a database or times out calling S3. This guide covers the networking behind those failures: CIDR blocks and subnets, what makes a subnet public or private, route tables, NAT gateways, VPC endpoints and security groups, with a small platform network built in code.
AWS Free Tier: What You Can Build for Practice
The AWS Free Tier now works through account plans and credits. This guide explains the Free and Paid plans, what happens when a Free plan ends, which services suit data practice within the credits, what consumes them quickly, a budget with alerts created in code, a cleanup routine, and practising without an account.
AWS IAM Explained: Users, Roles and Policies
AWS IAM decides who can do what in an AWS account. This guide explains users, groups, roles and policies, reads a JSON policy line by line, shows a least-privilege policy allowing one read and refusing other requests, explains why roles and temporary credentials are preferred, and lists the practices AWS recommends.
AWS Data Engineer Guide: Skills and Services
Lists of AWS data engineer skills are usually lists of AWS services. Survey data on data engineers who work on AWS tells a different story: infrastructure as code, containers and non-AWS databases are as much a part of the job as Glue or Redshift. Here is that evidence, and a map of services by task.