AWS-DBAWS | Planning and Designing Databases on AWS
 
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 our relational database services including Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon Aurora, and Amazon Redshift. You will also learn about our 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. 
 
Intended audience
This course is intended for: 
Data platform engineers, Database administrators, Solutions architects, IT professionals
 
Course objectives
In this course, you will learn 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 
 
Prerequisites
We recommend that attendees of this course have previously completed the following AWS courses: 
AWS Database Offerings digital training 
Data Analytics Fundamentals digital training 
Architecting on AWS classroom training 
 
COURSE OUTLINE:
Day One
Module 0: Planning and Designing Databases on AWS
Module 1: Database Concepts and General Guidelines
Module 2: Database Planning and Design
Module 3: Databases on Amazon EC2
Module 4: Purpose-Built Databases
Module 5: Databases on Amazon RDS
Module 6: Databases in Amazon Aurora
Day Two
Module 6: Databases in Amazon Aurora (continued)
Module 7: Databases in Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)
Module 8: Amazon DynamoDB Tables
Day Three
Module 9: Databases in Amazon Neptune
Module 10: Databases in Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (Amazon QLDB)
Module 11: Databases in Amazon ElastiCache
Module 12: Data Warehousing in Amazon Redshift
Module 13: Course Review