Big Data on AWS introduces students to cloud-based big data solutions such as Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR), Amazon Redshift, Amazon Kinesis, and the rest of the AWS big data platform. In this course, students are shown to use Amazon EMR to process data using the broad ecosystem of Hadoop tools like Hive and Hue. Students are also taught how to create big data environments, work with Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift, Amazon QuickSight, Amazon Athena, and Amazon Kinesis, and leverage best practices to design big data environments for security and cost-effectiveness.