Overview
Design Data Warehouses That Deliver Business Intelligence at Scale
Ready to turn complex datasets into powerful insights? This course teaches you how to design and implement high-performance data warehouse analytics solutions on AWS — from architecture to optimization.
Learn to ingest, transform, and store data efficiently, choose the right infrastructure for your workload, and apply advanced techniques like compression, auto scaling, and cost control. With a strong focus on security, performance, and real-time monitoring, you’ll walk away ready to deliver faster insights and smarter decisions for your business.
👉 Make your data warehouse the engine of innovation. Enroll today and lead the analytics revolution.
Activities
This course includes presentations, interactive demos, practice labs, discussions, and class exercises.
Course objectives
In this course, you will learn 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
Intended audience
This course is intended for data warehouse engineers, data platform engineers, and
architects and operators who build and manage data analytics pipelines.
Prerequisites
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
Course outline
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
Highlights
- Master Modern Data Architectures & Analytics Learn to compare and implement data warehouses, data lakes, and modern architectures—then design and deploy a scalable analytics solution tailored to business needs.
- Optimize Performance & Cost Efficiency Discover how to ingest, transform, and store data efficiently, optimize storage with compression, and select the right infrastructure (instances, clusters, auto-scaling) for peak performance and cost savings.
- Secure, Monitor & Drive Business Insights Ensure end-to-end security (data at rest & in transit), troubleshoot workloads, and leverage analytics to generate actionable insights—all while applying cost management best practices.
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