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AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification: How to Start
The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner is AWS's foundational certification. This guide uses the official CLF-C02 exam guide to explain who it is for, the exam's format, cost and passing score, the four domains and what each asks, what is out of scope, a study plan for beginners, and when it makes sense to skip it.
AWS CloudWatch for Monitoring Data Pipelines
Monitoring a data pipeline means knowing when it failed, when it did not run, and when it ran but produced bad data. This guide shows how Amazon CloudWatch covers all three: the metrics worth publishing, alarm settings including missing data, logs, EventBridge events from Glue, and a worked example in boto3.
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.