Course description

You will learn about the process of planning and designing both relational and nonrelational databases. You will learn the design considerations for hosting databases on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). You will learn about our relational database services including Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon Aurora, and Amazon Redshift. You will also learn about our nonrelational database services including Amazon DocumentDB, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon Neptune, and Amazon QLDB. By the end of this course, you will be familiar with the planning and design requirements of all 8 of these AWS databases services, their pros and cons, and how to know which AWS databases service is right for your workloads.

Course level: Intermediate

Duration 3 days

Activities

This course includes presentations, demonstrations, group exercises, and hands-on labs.

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

•  Data Engineers who are new to designing cloud databases or nonrelational databases
•  Solutions Architects who are designing services or architectures that are integrated with databases
•  Developers that are building cloud database-enabled applications

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

• Familiarity with AWS Database Services, equivalent to AWS Database Offerings digital training
• Understanding of database design concepts, and/or data modeling for relational or nonrelational databases
• Familiarity with cloud computing concepts
• Familiarity with general networking and encryption concepts
• Understanding of the three V’s of data (volume, velocity, and variety)
• Familiarity with basic data analytics concepts, equivalent to Data Analytics Fundamentals digital training
• Understanding of general architecting best practices and the AWS Well-Architected Framework, equivalent to Architecting on AWS classroom training

Course Outline

• Module 1: Database Concepts and General Guidelines
• Module 2: Database Planning and Design
• Module 3: Databases on Amazon EC2
• Module 4: Purpose-Built Databases
• Module 5: Databases on Amazon RDS
• Module 6: Databases in Amazon Aurora
• Module 7: Databases in Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)
• Module 8: Amazon DynamoDB Tables
• Module 9: Databases in Amazon Neptune
• Module 10: Databases in Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (Amazon QLDB)
• Module 11: Databases in Amazon ElastiCache
• Module 12: Data Warehousing in Amazon Redshift
• Module 13: Course Review