Overview
Description
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.
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
Prerequisites
We recommend that attendees of this course have:
- Completed either AWS Technical Essentials or Architecting on AWS
- Completed Building Data Lakes on AWS
Course duration / Price
1 day / € 750.00 (excl. tax) per person (DE)
Course outline
Module 0: 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 7: Developing Modern Data Architectures on AWS
- Modern data architectures
IMPORTANT: Please bring your notebook (Windows, Linux or Mac) to our trainings. If this is not possible, please contact us in advance.
The practical exercises are performed in prepared working environments available via web browser – no software needs to be installed. The course material is in English, spoken language can be in german or english. Other languages like spanish, portuguese or french, please contact us under training@tecracer.deÂ
Highlights
- Hands-On Experience with Amazon Redshift: Learn to implement and optimize a data warehouse analytics solution by working with Amazon Redshift for data ingestion, processing, and querying, including real-world practice with data loading, transformation, and querying.
- Integration with Data Lakes for ML Workloads: Gain expertise in integrating Amazon Redshift with data lakes to support not only analytics but also machine learning workloads, unlocking advanced insights from your data.
- Best Practices for Security, Performance, and Cost Management: Master how to apply security measures, monitor performance, and implement cost management strategies to operate Amazon Redshift efficiently, ensuring optimal results and lower costs.
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