Data’s everywhere—buzzing through pipelines, lounging in lakes, sprinting across dashboards—and someone has to keep it all from turning into a hot mess. That “someone” is often a data engineer. In recent years, the role has gone from niche to downright essential, especially in cloud-first companies. Enter the AWS Certified Data Engineer , a credential that’s quietly become a loud signal of credibility in the data world. Now, before we dive headfirst into acronyms, architectur
