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Stephane Maarek

Best Selling Instructor, 11x AWS Certified, Kafka Guru

4.7
1,108,850 reviews
26 Courses

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Most Recent Review

I start to learn AWS for my industry career, and this Cloud Practitioner course gives a very good knowledge of all the important services in AWS, categorized by each needs, and if you have already had experience as a software engineering, you will understand quickly the intuition why those services exist. Stephane also shows how to proceed our thinking during the exam which is very useful.
- Review by Thái Bình Trần Nguyễn on [NEW] Ultimate AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner CLF-C02 2026

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Instructor Bio

Stephane is a solutions architect, consultant and software developer that has a particular interest in all things related to Cloud & Big Data. He's also a many-times best seller instructor on Udemy for his courses in AWS and Apache Kafka.


[See FAQ below to see in which order you can take my courses]

Stéphane is recognized as an AWS Hero and is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional & AWS Certified DevOps Professional. He loves to teach people how to use the AWS properly, to get them ready for their AWS certifications, and most importantly for the real world.

He also loves Apache Kafka. He used on the Program Committee organizing the Kafka Summit in New York, London and San Francisco. He also was an active member of the Apache Kafka community, and has authored blogs on Medium and the guest blog for Confluent. He also has co-founded Conduktor, a prominent company in the Kafka ecosystem.


During his spare time, Stéphane composes piano music, that he publishes online under the artist name Makera ?


FAQ: In which order should you learn?...

AWS Cloud: Start with AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate, then move on to AWS Certified Developer Associate and then AWS Certified SysOps Administrator. Afterwards you can either do AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional or AWS Certified DevOps Professional, or a specialty certification of your choosing. You can also learn about AI with the AWS Certified AI Practitioner course! 


Apache Kafka: Start with Apache Kafka for Beginners, then you can learn Connect, Streams and Schema Registry if you're a developer, and Setup and Monitoring courses if you're an admin. Both tracks are needed to pass the Confluent Kafka certification.

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Stephane Maarek Courses

Ultimate AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate 2026

$129.99

[NEW] Ultimate AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner CLF-C02 2026

$159.99

Ultimate AWS Certified Developer Associate 2026 DVA-C02

$159.99

[NEW] Ultimate AWS Certified AI Practitioner AIF-C01

$49.99

6 Practice Exams | AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner CLF-C02

$139.99

Ultimate AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional 2026

$174.99

AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer Associate SOA-C03 2026

$199.99

Practice Exams | AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

$129.99

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional 2026 - DOP-C02

$174.99

AWS CloudFormation Master Class v2 [2025]

$99.99

AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate 2026 - Hands On!

$109.99

Practice Exams | AWS Certified Developer Associate

$109.99

[NEW] AWS Certified Advanced Networking Specialty 2026

$124.99

[Practice Exams] AWS Certified AI Practitioner - AIF-C01

$44.99

Ultimate AWS Certified Security Specialty [NEW 2026] SCS-C03

$119.99

Apache Kafka Series - Kafka Streams for Data Processing

$109.99

AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer Associate: Hands On!

$99.99

Apache Kafka Series - Kafka Connect Hands-on Learning

$94.99

Introduction to Apache NiFi | Cloudera DataFlow - HDF 2.0

$79.99

Apache Kafka Series - Kafka Cluster Setup & Administration

$84.99

Ultimate AWS Certified Generative AI Developer Professional

$19.99

Practice Exam AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional

$99.99

Apache Kafka Series - Confluent Schema Registry & REST Proxy

$94.99

Apache Kafka Series - KSQL on ksqlDB for Stream Processing !

$84.99

Apache Kafka Series - Kafka Security | SSL SASL Kerberos ACL

$84.99

Apache Kafka Series - Kafka Monitoring & Operations

$74.99

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