Data Warehousing on AWS

Course Description:

  The Data Warehousing on AWS course is a 3-day course that teaches students about new concepts, strategies, and best practices for designing a cloud-based data warehousing solution using Amazon Redshift, the petabyte-scale data warehouse in AWS.

In this course, students will learn how to collect, store, and prepare data for the data warehouse by using other AWS services such as Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EMR, Amazon Kinesis Firehose, and Amazon S3. Additionally, this course demonstrates how to use business intelligence tools to perform analysis on their data.

Topics covered in the course include:

• Core concepts of data warehousing
• Evaluating the relationship between Amazon Redshift and other big data systems
• Evaluating use cases for data warehousing workloads and review case studies that demonstrate implementation of AWS data and analytic services as part of a data warehousing solution
• Choosing an appropriate Amazon Redshift node type and size for your data needs
• Discussing security features as they pertain to Amazon Redshift, such as encryption, IAM permissions, and database permissions
• Launching an Amazon Redshift cluster and use the components, features, and functionality to implement a data warehouse in the cloud
• Using other AWS data and analytic services, such as Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EMR, Amazon Kinesis Firehose, and Amazon S3, to contribute to the data warehousing solution
• Approaches and methodologies for designing data warehouses
• Data sources and assess requirements that affect the data warehouse design
• Designing the data warehouse to make effective use of compression, data distribution, and sort methods
• Loading and unloading data and perform data maintenance tasks
• Writing queries and evaluate query plans to optimize query performance
• Configuring the database to allocate resources such as memory to query queues and define criteria to route certain types of queries to your configured query queues for improved processing
• Using features and services, such as Amazon Redshift database audit logging, Amazon CloudTrail, Amazon CloudWatch, and Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), to audit, monitor, and receive event notifications about activities in the data warehouse
• Preparing for operational tasks, such as resizing Amazon Redshift clusters and using snapshots to back up and restore clusters
• Using a business intelligence (BI) application to perform data analysis and visualization tasks against your data

Target Student: This course is ideal for:

• Database architects
• Database administrators
• Database developers
• Data analysts and scientists

Course Outline

Day 1

• Course Introduction
• Introduction to Data Warehousing
• Introduction to Amazon Redshift
• Understanding Amazon Redshift Components and Resources
• Launching an Amazon Redshift Cluster

Day 2

• Reviewing Data Warehousing Approaches
• Identifying Data Sources and Requirements
• Designing the Data Warehouse
• Loading Data into the Data Warehouse

Day 3

• Writing Queries and Tuning Performance
• Maintaining the Data Warehouse
• Analyzing and Visualizing Data
• Course Summary