Data Warehousing on AWS
Course code
DW-AWS
Duration
3 Days, 24 Acad. Hours
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
