Building Data Analytics Solutions Using Amazon Redshift Training in United States of America

Students with a minimum one-year experience managing data warehouses will benefit from this course.

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

• Completed either AWS Technical Essentials or Architecting on AWS
• Completed Building Data Lakes on AWS

• 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

Module A: Overview of Data Analytics and the Data Pipeline

• Data analytics use cases
• Using the data pipeline for analytics

Module 1: Using Amazon Redshift in the Data Analytics Pipeline

• Why Amazon Redshift for data warehousing?
• Overview of Amazon Redshift

Module 2: Introduction to 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

Module 3: Ingestion and Storage

• 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

Module 4: Processing and Optimizing Data

• 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

Module 5: Security and Monitoring of Amazon Redshift Clusters

• Securing the Amazon Redshift cluster
• Monitoring and troubleshooting Amazon Redshift clusters

Module 6: Designing Data Warehouse Analytics Solutions

• Data warehouse use case review
• Activity: Designing a data warehouse analytics workflow

Module B: Developing Modern Data Architectures on AWS

• Modern data architectures