About the course

In this course, you will learn about the process of planning and designing both relational and nonrelational databases. You will learn the design considerations for hosting databases on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). You will learn about the AWS relational database services including Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon Aurora, and Amazon Redshift. You will also learn about the AWS nonrelational database services including Amazon DocumentDB, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon Neptune, and Amazon QLDB. By the end of this course, you will be familiar with the planning and design requirements of all 8 of these AWS databases services, their pros and cons, and how to know which AWS databases service is right for your workloads.

This course is intended for:

• Data Platfrom Engineers
• Database Administrators
• Solutions Architects
• IT Professionals

Prerequisites (recommended)

• AWS Database Offerings digital training
• Data Analytics Fundamentals digital training
• Architecting on AWS classroom training

This course is designed to teach you how to:

• Apply database concepts, database management, and data modeling techniques
• Evaluate hosting databases on Amazon EC2 instances
• Evaluate relational database services (Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, and Amazon Redshift) and their features
• Evaluate nonrelational database services (Amazon DocumentDB, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon Neptune, and Amazon QLDB) and their features
• Examine how the design criteria apply to each service
• Apply management principles based on the unique features of each service

Agenda

• Introduction
• Database Concepts and General Guidelines
• Database Planning and Design
• Databases on Amazon EC2
• Purpose-Built Databases
• Purpose-Built Databases
• Databases in Amazon Aurora

• Databases in Amazon Aurora (continued)
• Databases in Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)
• Amazon DynamoDB Tables

• Databases in Amazon Neptune
• Databases in Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (Amazon QLDB)
• Databases in Amazon ElastiCache
• Data Warehousing in Amazon Redshift
• Course Review