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CL-204 Cloud & Platform

AWS Data Engineering

Build production data pipelines on AWS: S3 lake layout, Glue ETL, Athena, Kinesis streaming, Redshift serving, and Step Functions orchestration — assembled into one governed pipeline from raw ingestion to a queryable, cost-monitored serving layer.

B4Professional
5modules
34skill atoms
2role journeys
Curriculum

What this course covers.

5 modules, 34 named skill atoms. Expand any module to see them.

1Lake Foundations7 skill atoms
S3 zoningpartitioningfile formatsParquet vs JSON trade-offpartition pruning & small-file problemHive-style partition keysLake Formation permissions
2Batch ETL7 skill atoms
Glue jobscatalogsschema evolutioncrawlers & catalog tablesDynamicFrame vs DataFramejob bookmarks for incrementalsDPU sizing & shuffle skew
3Streaming Ingest7 skill atoms
Kinesisconsumersreplay thinkingshard count & partition key skewenhanced fan-out vs shared throughputiterator age as lag signalFirehose buffering to S3
4Serving & Query6 skill atoms
Athena patternsRedshift loadingCTAS & partition projectionbytes-scanned cost controlsort & dist key selectionRedshift Spectrum external tables
5Orchestration & Ops7 skill atoms
Step Functionsretriescost guardrailscatch/retry error handlingmap-state parallelismidempotent task designalarms on pipeline lag
Where it fits

CL-204 in the role journeys.

This course appears in 2 of our 45 role journeys. Here is what a learner takes immediately before and after it in each.

Data Platform Engineer

Practitioner stage
CL-101CL-204CL-214

Data Engineer

Professional stage
CL-228CL-204CL-214

Roles this course serves

The capability ladder

This course is authored to band B4.

Every course we run is written to one rung of the CASI ladder, so a plan can be assembled to take a team from where they are to where they need to be.

What do B1–B6 mean?The CASI Capability Ladder — click to expand

Every course targets a band on the CASI Capability Ladder — our six-band proficiency scale, anchored to open standards (O*NET, ESCO, NICE, NIST AI RMF, Bloom's). A band tells you how deep a course goes, and what evidence proves it.

What the learner can doTypical evidence
B1
AwareUnderstands concepts and vocabulary; uses tools with guidance
Knowledge checks
B2
FoundationPerforms standard tasks correctly in familiar contexts
Guided labs, autograded exercises
B3
PractitionerDelivers complete pieces of work independently
Scenario labs, proctored hands-on exams
B4
ProfessionalHandles production-grade complexity, trade-offs and failure modes
Break-fix drills, design defenses
B5
AdvancedEngineers systems end-to-end under constraints; leads others
Rubric-scored capstones, vivas
B6
ExpertSets direction; recognised authority across teams
Portfolio + panel evaluation

A note on B6. Courses in this catalog target B1–B5. B6 is not taught — it is recognised, through a portfolio and a panel, once someone is setting direction for others. Every journey here is built to land a learner at B5.

Next step

Run CL-204 for your team.

This course runs at several lengths depending on how deep you need to go and how much of it your people already have. Tell us who is being trained and we will scope it.

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