Planning and Designing Databases on AWS

Who is the course for

• 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

What we teach you

• 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

Required skills

• Familiarity with AWS Database Services, equivalent to AWS Database Offerings digital training
• Understanding of database design concepts, and/or data modeling for relational or nonrelational databases
• Familiarity with cloud computing concepts
• Familiarity with general networking and encryption concepts
• Understanding of the three V’s of data (volume, velocity, and variety)
• Familiarity with basic data analytics concepts, equivalent to Data Analytics Fundamentals digital training
• Understanding of general architecting best practices and the AWS Well-Architected Framework, equivalent to Architecting on AWS classroom training

Teaching methods

Professional explanation with practical samples and examples.

Teaching materials

Amazon Web Services authorized e-book included.