Course Overview

This training will teach you how to use workload requirements to define database design considerations and also explore the features and capabilities of the eight AWS database services. By the end of the course, you will be able to determine which AWS database service is right for your workloads and design the database to meet your requirements.

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Level: Intermediate

Duration: 3 Days

Delivery Type: Instructor-Led Training

Course Objectives

• Apply database concepts, database management, and data modeling techniques
• Evaluate hosting databases on Amazon EC2 instances
• Evaluate relational AWS database services and their features (Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, and Amazon Redshift)
• Evaluate nonrelational AWS database services and their features (Amazon DocumentDB, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon Neptune, and Amazon QLDB)
• Examine how the design criteria apply to each service
• Apply management principles based on the unique features of each service

Prerequisites

Required

• Familiarity with AWS Database Services, equivalent to AWS Database Offerings digital training
• Familiarity with basic data analytics concepts, equivalent to Data Analytics Fundamentals digital training
• Familiarity with cloud computing concepts & networking and encryption concepts
• Understanding of database design concepts, and/or data modeling for relational or non-relational databases
• Understanding of the three V's of data (volume, velocity, and variety)
• Architecting on AWS

Who Should Go For This Training?

• 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

Course Outline

Day 1

Module 1: Database concepts and general guidelines

• Databases in the cloud
• Database design principles
• Transactional compliance

Module 2: Database planning and design

• Workload requirements
• Design considerations

Module 3: Databases on Amazon EC2

• Amazon EC2 for hosting databases

Module 4: Purpose-built databases databases on Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS

• The journey to AWS
• Data modeling basics

Module 5: Amazon RDS

• Amazon RDS overview
• Amazon RDS distinguishing features
• Amazon RDS design considerations
• Hands-on Lab: working with Amazon RDS databases

Day 2

Module 6: Amazon Aurora

• Amazon Aurora overview
• Amazon Aurora distinguishing features
• Amazon Aurora design considerations

Module 7: Amazon Aurora (continued)

• Hands-on Lab: working with Amazon Aurora databases

Module 8: Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)

• Amazon DocumentDB overview
• Amazon DocumentDB design considerations
• Amazon DocumentDB distinguishing features
• Hands-on Lab: working with Amazon DocumentDB databases

Module 9: Amazon DynamoDB

• Amazon DynamoDB overview
• Amazon DynamoDB data modeling
• Amazon DynamoDB distinguishing features
• Amazon DynamoDB design considerations
• Hands-on Lab: working with Amazon DynamoDB

Day 3

Module 10: Databases in Amazon Neptune

• Amazon Neptune overview
• Amazon Neptune design considerations

Module 11: Databases in Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (Amazon QLDB)

• Amazon QLDB overview
• Amazon QLDB Design Considerations

Module 12: Databases in Amazon ElastiCache

• Amazon ElastiCache overview
• Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached
• Amazon ElastiCache for Redis

Module 13: Data warehousing in Amazon Redshift

• Amazon Redshift overview
• Amazon Redshift distinguishing features
• Amazon Redshift data modeling
• Amazon Redshift design considerations
• Hands-on Lab: working with Amazon Redshift Clusters