AWS Data Engineer Associate 2025: Authentication & Authorization for Data Engineering

Proper identity and access controls are the backbone of any secure data pipeline.In this course, learn how to create and manage IAM roles and policies that enforce the least privilege, support federation via SAML or OIDC, and generate short-lived credentials using STS. Next, explore advanced access control techniques such as tag-based policies and attribute-based access control (ABAC), along with credential rotation and secrets management using AWS Secrets Manager. Finally, discover how Lake Formation centralizes permissions for S3 and analytics services, how IAM Access Analyzer detects overly broad policies, and how cross-account roles enable secure data pipeline access across organizational boundaries.This course is part of a collection that prepares learners for the AWS Certified Data Engineer EAssociate (DEA-C01) certification exam.