AWS Data Engineer Associate 2025: Cost Optimization & Performance Tuning for Data Pipelines

Managing cloud costs and boosting performance are critical for scaling data workloads efficiently.In this course, discover how partition indexing and metadata caching in Athena can reduce scanned data and improve query speed. Next, learn how to optimize performance using partition awareness and predicate pushdown strategies across Athena and Redshift Spectrum. Finally, explore how to design cost-effective pipelines using serverless components, ephemeral clusters, and containers.This course is part of a collection that prepares learners for the AWS Certified Data Engineer EAssociate (DEA-C01) certification exam.