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Building Data Analytics Solutions Using Amazon Redshift

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Duration

1 Days

6 CPD hours

About this course

This course is intended for data warehouse engineers, data platform engineers, and architects and operators who build and manage data analytics pipelines.
Completed either AWS Technical Essentials or Architecting on AWS
Completed Building Data Lakes on AWS

Overview

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

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.

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
Additional course details:

Nexus Humans Building Data Analytics Solutions Using Amazon Redshift training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward.

This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts.

Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success.

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Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.

Training Insurance Included!

When you organise training, we understand that there is a risk that some people may fall ill, become unavailable. To mitigate the risk we include training insurance for each delegate enrolled on our public schedule, they are welcome to sit on the same Public class within 6 months at no charge, if the case arises.

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