Digital Classroom - Planning and Designing Databases on AWS

In this course, you will learn about planning and designing your solutions with purpose-built Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud databases. The course introduces you to the features and characteristics of each of these databases and shares the design considerations that you should make while using them. By taking this course, you can develop the analytical skills needed to choose the right AWS database for your unique needs.

By the end of the course, you will be able to analyze a business use case, analyze the workload, and assess application requirements to identify and design the most suitable AWS database solution to support your organizational needs.

Course Objectives

In this course, you learn how to:

• Summarize the AWS Well-Architected Framework for designing database solutions.  
• Choose an appropriate purpose-built database service for a given workload.  
• Design a relational database solution to solve a business problem.  
• Design a NoSQL database solution to solve a business problem.
• Analyze data from multiple databases to solve a business problem.
• Discuss the security considerations for your database solution.  

Intended Audience

•  Solutions architects
•  Database architects
•  Developers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

• Familiarity with AWS database services
• Understanding the databases design concepts and/or data modeling for relational or non-relational databases
• Familiarity with cloud computing concepts
• Familiarity with general networking and encryption concepts
• Completion of the digital course 'Introduction to Building with Databases'

Course Outline

•  Module 1 – AWS Purpose-Built Databases  
•  Module 2 – Amazon Relational Database Services (Amazon RDS)  
•  Module 3 – Amazon Aurora  
•  Module 4 – Amazon DynamoDB  
•  Module 5 – Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)  
•  Module 6 – Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)  
•  Module 7 – Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (Amazon QLDB)  
•  Module 8 – Amazon Neptune  
•  Module 9 – Amazon Timestream  
•  Module 10 – Amazon ElastiCache  
•  Module 11 – Amazon MemoryDB for Redis  
•  Module 12 – Amazon Redshift
•  Module 13 – Tools for Working with AWS Dataabses