The Data Engineering with AWS program (4 courses, 66 hours) shows 'Enroll Now' on 2026-10-08 with subscription offers of $249 per month or $212 per month on a 4-month bundle in the page's structured data. source
A project-based, self-paced AWS data engineering program billed monthly, now owned by Accenture. It suits engineers who already know Python and SQL and want graded projects on Redshift, Spark, Iceberg and Airflow for a few hundred dollars. Check recent reviews of the specific projects before subscribing, since the program's reputation for stale instructions is the main complaint.
The facts
| Category | Data engineering and analytics, Cloud and DevOps, AI and machine learning |
|---|---|
| Website | udacity.com/course/data-engineer-nanodegree–nd027 |
| Based | Mountain View, CA · founded 2011 |
| Format | online-self-paced |
| Programs | Data Engineering with AWS (4 courses, 4 projects, 66 hours) |
| Length | 66 hours of content across 4 courses (18, 13, 15 and 20 hours); Udacity publishes no week count. unknown |
| Tuition | $212 to $249 Per month. Program page JSON-LD offers: Monthly Subscription $249.00; 4-Month Bundle $212.00 per month (about $848). A 15% off promotion and an unpriced one-time individual course option were also displayed. The visible pricing widget failed to render. verified |
| Financing | upfront Subscription, 'cancel anytime'; no guarantee, no loans. |
| Admission | open Nine listed prerequisites including intermediate Python, SQL, relational data modeling, command line and GitHub; fluent English. |
| Stack | PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Neo4j, Amazon Redshift, Apache Spark, Amazon S3, Apache Iceberg, Amazon Athena, Apache Airflow, Amazon MWAA, AWS Glue, Python, SQL |
Outcomes
Placement: 96% of Udacity graduates reported a positive career outcome (Q2 2026 survey, all programs). Reporting period: 2026. verified source
Interview-prep depth
1 / 5
Program outline is 4 technical courses and projects; career coaching is a subscription perk with no published content.
Job support: light. Subscription blurb promises 'personalized career coaching and interview prep' and project feedback; no hours, mock interviews or placement figures are published.
Whatever the program covers, the interview itself is free to prepare for here: coding patterns, system design, practice prompts, company guides.
What a careful reader should know
Udacity has been part of Accenture since 2024 (announced March, completed May). r/dataengineering threads from 2021 and 2025 complain about gaps in instructions, outdated code and missing datasets in this nanodegree; the 2026 syllabus has since been rebuilt around Iceberg, Athena and MWAA. The '96% positive career outcome' figure is a self-reported survey across all Udacity programs, not this one.
Third-party signals: Course Report 4.7 (627 reviews). Reddit sentiment negative. Graduation-time star ratings are collected by the schools; weigh them accordingly.
Sources (4)
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