Learner reviews & feedback for Building Data Lakes on AWS

4.7310 reviews

About this course

The fundamental-level course is typically designed for individuals with a basic understanding of data storage and processing concepts but little to no prior experience with building data lakes on AWS specifically. After a brief introduction to Data Lakes, we'll introduce data ingestion, cataloging and preparation, concluding with an overview of querying data with Amazon Athena. The course will continue with an AWS Lake Formation overview, including a hands-on lab where you'll build a data lake. We'll then introduce data processing and analytics leveraing AWS Glue before diving into automated data lake creatiokn using Lake Formation blueprints. Finally, we'll close with Modern Data Architectures on AWS with a lab that covers publishing and consuming data products as a service.

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5.0Reviewed Apr 8, 2024

great course. I keep coming back to it even after 2 years.

5.0Reviewed Aug 1, 2022

thank for such nicely design course for learning and handson

5.0Reviewed Feb 8, 2023

The best aws course is taught by two excellent instructors who use relevant examples, demonstrations, graphics, and content that is carefully organized.

5.0Reviewed Feb 24, 2021

Excelente curso para iniciar iniciar en el mundo de AWS para Data Lakes

4.0Reviewed Jul 11, 2021

Very good class. Except the problem in Lab2 of week 3. Author should fix it!

5.0Reviewed Apr 9, 2021

liked so far, good speed and good to know knowledge about the product offering and concepts.

4.0Reviewed Jul 12, 2022

It is a good one. However, I had some problems accessing the exercises...

5.0Reviewed Nov 2, 2023

This course gives a foundational knowledge of what you need to know about data lakes, with focus on AWS data lake

5.0Reviewed Apr 9, 2021

Great course, great instructors, I learned a lot. Thanks.

4.0Reviewed Feb 19, 2021

I Loved it, just that is only a beginner course, I would like to have more courses like this one, so we can keep up with AWS and data lakes.

5.0Reviewed Jan 17, 2021

I liked the class. The labs were good for getting the message across.

5.0Reviewed Jul 29, 2023

One of the best Cloud Courses out there. So practical, and well put together. Thanks to Morgan and Raf.

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Ra‚ Kowalski

5.0

Reviewed Feb 13, 2021

A very good first introductory course to data lakes and how to implement them using AWS services.

Mahima Srivastava

3.0

Reviewed Dec 25, 2024

None of the Labs in this Course #3 i.e Building Data Lakes on AWS has worked for me. The self paced lab in Module 3 , Module 5 and Module 6, never launched for me. Tried across multiple days of the week and at different times but was unable to launch the AWS Lab environments.

Daniel Bravo

5.0

Reviewed Mar 6, 2021

This is an excelent introduction to Data Lakes that let me understand the flexibility and power of building a data lake using a serverless approach to achieve two goals: pay for value and seamlessly scale (mainly in the storage area). It would be great to have an update on using Glue Studio and Glue DataBrew.

Daniel Beltran

5.0

Reviewed Jan 27, 2021

Teaches the fundamentals of AWS env with a Data Lake related approach, it's a good course however I would like to see in future more videos related to the services inside the GUI of amazon or within the CLI

Jorge Contreras

5.0

Reviewed Feb 24, 2021

Excelente curso para iniciar iniciar en el mundo de AWS para Data Lakes

David Trower

5.0

Reviewed Jan 18, 2021

I liked the class. The labs were good for getting the message across.

JP Leger

5.0

Reviewed Jan 30, 2021

Great overview of AWS data lakes already using it at work.

Gabriel Andrey Perego Nunes

5.0

Reviewed Jan 19, 2021

It is a very good course with practical classes too

Lorivic Cua

5.0

Reviewed Jan 10, 2021

great start to learn data lakes

Tanzir Ahmed

5.0

Reviewed Feb 14, 2021

Excellent course !

Dionis Matos

5.0

Reviewed Dec 27, 2020

Awesome Course!!!

Swapnil Chhatre

1.0

Reviewed Feb 3, 2025

Unable to access lab even after paying. Been over a week, its saying its down for maintenance. Not acceptable as labs is one of the key reasons why you would want to do this course.

D. B.

1.0

Reviewed Mar 10, 2025

Labs were offline

Brandon Chan

1.0

Reviewed Oct 17, 2025

labs not working

Julian Diaz-Hurtado

5.0

Reviewed Mar 27, 2023

Good course providing lots of content and concepts about AWS services for data lake creation and management and data analytics. It could be split into 2 courses: a more beginner level course with less content and concepts in order to reduce some of the complexity and effort in the learning process; and an intermediate level course, as this one is, but with a deeper dive into the specifics of the AWS services presented.

Jeison Duvan Pacateque Sarmiento

5.0

Reviewed Nov 15, 2023

This whole specialization has been one of the best I've taken in Coursera. Love the instructors and the format. Thank you! One opportunity of improvements is the peer-graded assignments: the format of the uploades the files should be standarized and rubric should include more options, not only 'Yes' or 'No'. Great course!

Razi Khazi

5.0

Reviewed Jun 23, 2021

Amaizing course! Please add the continuation of the course (Intermediate level). I faced some problem using AWS services because the AWS server many a times blocked me or did not give me complete access

Sandun Tharuka

5.0

Reviewed Feb 8, 2023

The best aws course is taught by two excellent instructors who use relevant examples, demonstrations, graphics, and content that is carefully organized.

VICTOR NWUME

5.0

Reviewed Nov 2, 2023

This course gives a foundational knowledge of what you need to know about data lakes, with focus on AWS data lake

Saman Saybani

5.0

Reviewed Jul 30, 2023

One of the best Cloud Courses out there. So practical, and well put together. Thanks to Morgan and Raf.