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Building Data Analytics Solutions Using Amazon Redshift

In this course, you will build a data analytics solution using Amazon Redshift, a cloud data warehouse service. The course focuses on the data collection, ingestion, cataloging, storage, and processing components of the analytics pipeline. You will learn to integrate Amazon Redshift with a data lake to support both analytics and machine learning workloads. You will also learn to apply security, performance, and cost management best practices to the operation of Amazon Redshift.

Duration
1 day
Level
Intermediate
Provider
AWS
Topic
Data & analytics / AWS Data Analytics

Course outline

  • Module A: Overview of data analytics and the data pipeline – use cases, using the data pipeline for analytics
  • Module 1: Using Amazon Redshift in the data analytics pipeline – why Amazon Redshift, service overview
  • Module 2: Introduction to Amazon Redshift – architecture, console, features; lab: loading and querying data
  • Module 3: Ingestion and storage – Data API, data distribution, SUPER data type, Amazon Redshift Spectrum
  • Module 4: Processing and optimising data – transformation, advanced querying, workload management, cluster resizing
  • Module 5: Security and monitoring of Amazon Redshift clusters – securing, monitoring, troubleshooting
  • Module 6: Designing data warehouse analytics solutions – use case review, workflow design activity
  • Module B: Developing modern data architectures on AWS

Skills you will gain

  • 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

Who should attend

  • Data warehouse engineers
  • Data platform engineers
  • Architects who build and manage data analytics pipelines
  • Operators who build and manage data analytics pipelines

Prerequisites

  • At least one year of experience managing data warehouses
  • Completed either AWS Technical Essentials or Architecting on AWS
  • Completed Building Data Lakes on AWS