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Overview
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.
Activites
This course includes presentations, group exercises, and hands-on labs.
Objectives
In this Data Warehousing on AWS course, , participants will be able to:
Prerequisites
We recommend that attendees of Advanced Developing on AWS course have the following prerequisites:
- Taken AWS Technical Essentials (or equivalent experience with AWS)
- Familiarity with relational databases and database design concepts
Course Outline
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
Introduction to Amazon Redshift
- Conceptual overview
- Real-world use cases
- Hands-on lab 2: Launching an Amazon Redshift cluster
Launching clusters
- Building the cluster
- Connecting to the cluster
- Controlling access
- Database security
- Load data
- Hands-on lab 3: Optimizing database schemas
Designing the database schema
- Schemas and data types
- Columnar compression
- Data distribution styles
- Data sorting methods
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
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
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
Amazon Redshift Spectrum
- Amazon Redshift Spectrum
- Configuring data for Amazon Redshift Spectrum
- Amazon Redshift Spectrum Queries
- Hands-on lab 7: Using Amazon Redshift Spectrum
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
