Data Warehousing on AWS

Course code

DW-AWS

Duration

3 Days, 24 Acad. Hours

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Course Overview

Objectives

Prerequisites

Course Outline

Course Overview

Course description

Data Warehousing on AWS introduces you to concepts, strategies, and best practices for designing a cloud-based data warehousing solution using Amazon Redshift, the petabyte-scale data warehouse in AWS. This course demonstrates how to collect, store, and prepare data for the data warehouse by using AWS services such as Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EMR, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon S3. Additionally, this course demonstrates how to use Amazon QuickSight to perform analysis on your data.

Objectives

Course objectives

This course is designed to teach you how to:

Discuss the core concepts of data warehousing, and the intersection between data warehousing and big data solutions
Launch an Amazon Redshift cluster and use the components, features, and functionality to implement a data warehouse in the cloud
Use other AWS data and analytic services, such as Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EMR, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon S3, to contribute to the data warehousing solution
Architect the data warehouse
Identify performance issues, optimize queries, and tune the database for better performance
Use Amazon Redshift Spectrum to analyze data directly from an Amazon S3 bucket
Use Amazon QuickSight to perform data analysis and visualization tasks against the data warehouse

Prerequisites

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

Database Architects, Database Administrators, Database Developers, Data Analysts and Data Scientists

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

Familiarity with relational databases and database design concepts

Course Outline

Day One

Module 1: Introduction to Data Warehousing

Relational databases
Data warehousing concepts
The intersection of data warehousing and big data
Overview of data management in AWS
Hands-on lab 1: Introduction to Amazon Redshift

Module 2: Introduction to Amazon Redshift

Conceptual overview
Real-world use cases
Hands-on lab 2: Launching an Amazon Redshift cluster

Module 3: Launching clusters

Building the cluster
Connecting to the cluster
Controlling access
Database security
Load data
Hands-on lab 3: Optimizing database schemas

Day Two

Module 4: Designing the database schema

Schemas and data types
Columnar compression
Data distribution styles
Data sorting methods

Module 5: Identifying data sources

Data sources overview
Amazon S3
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon EMR
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
AWS Lambda Database Loader for Amazon Redshift
Hands-on lab 4: Loading real-time data into an Amazon Redshift database

Module 6: Loading data

Preparing Data
Loading data using COPY
Maintaining tables
Concurrent write operations
Troubleshooting load issues
Hands-on lab 5: Loading data with the COPY command

Day Three

Module 7: Writing queries and tuning for performance

Amazon Redshift SQL
User-Defined Functions (UDFs)
Factors that affect query performance
The EXPLAIN command and query plans
Workload Management (WLM)
Hands-on lab 6: Configuring workload management

Module 8: Amazon Redshift Spectrum

Amazon Redshift Spectrum
Configuring data for Amazon Redshift Spectrum
Amazon Redshift Spectrum Queries
Hands-on lab 7: Using Amazon Redshift Spectrum

Module 9: Maintaining clusters

Audit logging
Performance monitoring
Events and notifications
Lab 8: Auditing and monitoring clusters
Resizing clusters
Backing up and restoring clusters
Resource tagging and limits and constraints
Hands-on lab 9: Backing up, restoring and resizing clusters

Module 10: Analyzing and visualizing data

Power of visualizations
Building dashboards
Amazon QuickSight editions and features

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Data Warehousing on AWS

Course code:

DW-AWS

Duration:

3 Days, 24 Acad. Hours

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