Cloud Wizard - Building Data Lakes on AWS - 1 Day ILT

Cloud Wizard Consulting is an AWS Advanced Training Partner and Select Tier Consulting Partner that has trained more than 5,000 professionals across industries. Our authorized instructors hold all AWS certifications and bring real-world consulting experience to every session, ensuring participants learn not just theory but practical implementation patterns they can apply immediately. With a 100% course completion pass rate, our training delivers measurable results.

This intermediate-level, 1-day instructor-led course is designed for:

• Data platform engineers building or modernizing data infrastructure
• Solutions architects designing analytics-ready environments
• IT professionals responsible for data governance and security

Use Case Example: A financial services team consolidating siloed departmental data into a centralized, governed data lake to enable self-service analytics and reduce time-to-insight from weeks to hours.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Plan and design a data lake using established methodologies
• Describe the components and services required for building a data lake on AWS
• Secure a data lake on AWS using appropriate permissions and fine-grained access controls
• Ingest, store, and transform structured and unstructured data
• Analyze and visualize data stored in a data lake using Amazon Athena
• Build and automate deployment of a data lake using AWS Lake Formation
• Describe the role of a data lake within a modern data architecture

Module 1: Introduction to Data Lakes

• The value of data lakes vs. data warehouses
• Components of a data lake and common architectures

Module 2: Data Ingestion, Cataloging, and Preparation

• Data lake storage and ingestion relationships
• AWS Glue crawlers and data catalog creation
• Data formatting, partitioning, and compression for efficient storage and query

Module 3: Building a Data Lake with AWS Lake Formation

• Data processing within a data lake using AWS Glue
• Analyzing data with Amazon Athena
• Hands-on Lab 1: Building a Data Lake with AWS Lake Formation

Module 4: Data Processing and Analysis

• Features and benefits of AWS Lake Formation
• The Lake Formation security model
• Hands-on Lab 2: Build a data lake using AWS Lake Formation

Module 5: Advanced Lake Formation Configurations

• Built-in Blueprints for creating and populating Lake Formation
• Fine-grained row/cell access control
• Tag-based access control vs. Named access control
• Access flow enforcement for analytics services

Module 6: Modern Data Architecture

• Scalable data lakes, purpose-built analytics services, seamless data movement, unified governance
• Data movement patterns: Inside out, Outside in, Around the perimeter, Sharing across
• Data Mesh architecture using Lake Formation
• Hands-on Lab 3: Building and publishing a data product in Lake Formation

Module 7: Course Wrap-Up

• Post-course knowledge check and architecture review

This course includes 3 instructor-guided labs where participants work directly in AWS environments with Amazon S3, AWS Glue, AWS Lake Formation, and Amazon Athena. Labs are isolated per participant and credentials are managed securely throughout the session.

• Data Analytics Fundamentals (recommended)

Contact Cloud Wizard Consulting to discuss available dates and group enrollment. Our team will conduct a brief discovery call to confirm prerequisites and class size, then provide a proposal with date options and confirmation timeline.

Per-participant pricing is available, with group discounts for teams. Contact us for a custom quote based on your team size and delivery preferences.