Building Data Analytics Solutions Using Amazon Redshift

Course Code: AW-BDAS

This course is intended for data warehouse engineers, data platform engineers, and architects and operators who build and manage data analytics pipelines.

  • Duration: 1 Day
  • Level: Intermediate
  • Technology: AWS
  • Delivery Method: Instructor-led
  • Training Credits: NA

This course is intended for data warehouse engineers, data platform engineers, and architects and operators who build and manage data analytics pipelines.

Before attending this course, delegates must have:

- Completed either AWS Technical Essentials or Architecting on AWS

- Completed Building Data Lakes on AWS

After completing this course, students will be able to:

- Compare the features and benefits of data warehouses, data lakes, and modern data architectures

- Design and implement a data warehouse analytics solution

- Identify and apply appropriate techniques, including compression, to optimize data storage

- Select and deploy appropriate options to ingest, transform, and store data 

- Choose the appropriate instance and node types, clusters, auto scaling, and network topology for a particular business use case

- Understand how data storage and processing affect the analysis and visualization mechanisms needed to gain actionable business insights

- Secure data at rest and in transit

- Monitor analytics workloads to identify and remediate problems

- Apply cost management best practices

There is no associated exam with this course.

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Modules

- Why Amazon Redshift for data warehousing?

- Overview of Amazon Redshift

- Amazon Redshift architecture

- Interactive Demo 1: Touring the Amazon Redshift console

- Amazon Redshift features

Practice Lab 1: Load and query data in an Amazon Redshift cluster

- Ingestion

- Interactive Demo 2: Connecting your Amazon Redshift cluster using a Jupyter notebook with Data API

- Data distribution and storage

- Interactive Demo 3: Analyzing semi-structured data using the SUPER data type

- Querying data in Amazon Redshift

Practice Lab 2: Data analytics using Amazon Redshift Spectrum

- Data transformation

- Advanced querying

Practice Lab 3: Data transformation and querying in Amazon Redshift

- Resource management

- Interactive Demo 4: Applying mixed workload management on Amazon Redshift

- Automation and optimization

- Interactive demo 5: Amazon Redshift cluster resizing from the dc2.large to ra3.xlplus cluster

- Securing the Amazon Redshift cluster

- Monitoring and troubleshooting Amazon Redshift clusters

- Data warehouse use case review

- Activity: Designing a data warehouse analytics workflow

- Data analytics use cases 

- Using the data pipeline for analytics