AWS & Apache Spark: The Complete Big Data Analytics Course (Udemy.com)
Master the cloud. Build scalable data pipelines and train Machine Learning models using Spark, EMR, and SparkSQL.
Created by: Skillbox, LLC
Last updated January 2026
What you will learn
- Start a project using Apache Spark
- Understand how Spark SQL lets you work with structured data
- Install and run Apache Spark on a desktop computer or on a cluster
- Gain hands-on experience setting up Spark clusters on AWS cloud services platform
- Understand how to control a cloud instance on AWS using SSH or PuTTY
- Understand how to access data from the CSV, Json, HDFS, and S3 formats
How it compares
Against the other 150 rated Udemy courses in Hadoop on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.2 out of 5higher than 34% of them
- Reviews293#80 of 151 by number of reviews
- Length2.3 hoursshorter than 91% of them
- Last updatedJanuary 2026more recently than 79% of them
Course Description
Data is the new oil. But it’s useless if you can't refine it.
Processing gigabytes on your laptop is easy. But what happens when you need to process terabytes or petabytes? You need the Cloud, and you need a distributed computing engine. You need AWS and Apache Spark.
Welcome to the comprehensive guide to modern Big Data. This course is designed to bridge the gap between Data Engineering (setting up clusters, managing storage) and Data Science (analyzing data, training models).
Why this course? Most courses teach Spark in isolation on a local machine. We take you to the real world. You will learn how to provision legitimate clusters on the AWS Cloud, effectively becoming a "Cloud Data Specialist."
What will you master?
The AWS Ecosystem: We start from zero. You will learn to navigate the AWS console, understand IAM security, and master S3 (Simple Storage Service) for storing massive datasets.
Cluster Management: Stop struggling with local installations. Learn to spin up EC2 instances and fully managed EMR (Elastic MapReduce) clusters to handle heavy workloads.
SparkSQL & DataFrames: Move beyond old-school RDDs. Master the modern DataFrame API to query structured data just like you would with SQL—but faster and at scale.
Machine Learning at Scale: This is where the magic happens. We dive into Spark MLlib to build predictive models on big data. You will implement:
Classification: Naive Bayes and Binomial GLMs.
Regression: Gaussian Generalized Linear Models (GLM).
Clustering: K-Means to group similar data points automatically.
SparkR & Analytics: Leverage the power of R syntax within the Spark engine for advanced statistical analysis.
Who is this course for? This course is perfect for Data Scientists who want to scale their models from their laptop to the cloud, and Software Engineers who want to break into the lucrative field of Big Data.
Don't let the data overwhelm you. Master the tools to control it. Enroll today and start building scalable Big Data solutions on the world's leading cloud platform.
Instructor Details
- 4.2 Rating
293 Reviews
Skillbox, LLC
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Reviews
By Daniel Ryan on 5/30/2023
info is pertinent to my job.
By Biku Kumar on 12/27/2022
Great Learning Experience!!
By Abida Banu B on 7/8/2022
explaination with basics is very clear.
By Sunsik Kim on 8/22/2020
Systemic explanation provided. So helpful!
By Joshcarter on 6/19/2020
Nice, short course in using SparkR with AWS. Would like to see same type of course on Using Spark/Scala on AWS. One comment, instructor does not get back to students on question, but course seems to be pretty straight forward so no concern there hence 5 star rating.
By Anthony Musiani on 5/15/2020
Seems to be biased towards R, but R was no where mentioned in the title or main description. I know Python, so I didn't really want to try to figure out R while learning Spark
By Randhir Kaushik on 2/23/2020
This course covers well about Spark cluster setup on AWS. Mainly good for Spark R language developer, not covered for Pythan/Scala.
By Carlos Morlan on 2/11/2020
I was expecting to learn more about the Apache Spark setup instead of just running some line commands; moreover, all the examples used csv files. It will be great to add some examples connecting to different sources like relational data bases.
By Todd Norris on 1/21/2019
I thought it was great. The course content did not quite match the AWS console I see so I expect it needs to be updated, but all differences were minor and easy enough to follow.
By Andrew Sturt on 3/26/2018
The course this is a part of said nothing about R. The videos so far have mentioned R a couple of times. I am very slightly familiar with R, so if that is important I'm going to spend a lot of time working on something that is not what I purchased the series for.
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