AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate (DEA-C01) Audio Study Guide & Podcasts

Andrew and Ava roast (and actually explain) why S3 isn’t a filesystem, why Parquet isn’t magic, and how AWS exam questions weaponize the words “immutable,” “partition,” and “compression.”

Andrew and Ava tackle the two exam-favorites that ruin study plans: IAM policy evaluation and KMS envelope encryption. Expect least-privilege tough love, key policy reality checks, and a few jabs at long-lived credentials.

Andrew and Ava unpack the brutal truths of Kinesis Data Streams shards (ordering, throughput, hot keys) and AWS Glue ETL + Crawlers (what they do, what they don’t), plus how the DEA-C01 tries to trick you with wording.

Andrew and Ava untangle the exam’s favorite trap: Redshift warehouse tuning versus Athena’s “serverless” reality—distribution keys, sort keys, VACUUM, WLM, partitions, file formats, and why your latency won’t be cured by vibes.