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AWS Authorized Training Course - Big Data on AWS

Course Summary

The Big Data on AWS training course is designed to demonstrate the cloud-based big data solutions like Amazon EMR, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Kinesis, and other features of the AWS big data platform.

The course begins by utilizing Amazon EMR to process data using the broad ecosystem of Hadoop tools, like Hive and Hue. Next, it explores how to create big data environments through work with Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift, Amazon QuickSight, Amazon Athena and Amazon Kinesis. The course concludes by explaining how to design big data environments for security and cost-effectiveness.

Prerequisites:

  • Basic familiarity with big data technologies, including Apache Hadoop, HDFS, and SQL/NoSQL querying
  • Completed Data Analytics Fundamentals free digital training or equivalent experience
  • Working knowledge of core AWS services and public cloud implementation
  • Completed the AWS Technical Essentials classroom training or have equivalent experience
  • Basic understanding of data warehousing, relational database systems, and database design

THIS COURSE IS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR TRAINING BUNDLES.

Purpose
To demonstrate how to design big data environments for security and cost-effectiveness.
Audience
Individuals responsible for designing and implementing big data solutions, namely Solutions Architects and SysOps Administrators, Data Scientists and Data Analysts interested in learning about big data solutions on AWS
Role
Data Scientist - System Administrator
Skill Level
Intermediate
Style
Workshops
Duration
3 Days
Related Technologies
Amazon DynamoDB | Amazon Redshift | Hadoop | Cloud Computing Training | AWS

 

Productivity Objectives
  • Use Apache Hadoop with Amazon EMR
  • Launch and configure an Amazon EMR cluster
  • Utilize common programming frameworks for Amazon EMR, including Hive, Pig, and Streaming
  • Use Hue to improve the ease-of-use of Amazon EMR
  • Use in-memory analytics with Spark on Amazon EMR
  • Understand how services like AWS Glue, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Athena, and Amazon QuickSight can be used with big data workloads

What You'll Learn:

In the AWS Authorized Training Course - Big Data on AWS training course, you'll learn:
  • Overview of Big Data
    • What is Big Data?
    • The Big Data pipeline
    • Big Data architectural principals
  • Big Data Ingestion and Transfer
    • Data ingestion
    • Transfer data
  • Big Data Streaming and Amazon Kinesis
    • Stream process of Big Data
    • Amazon Kinesis
    • Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
    • Amazon Kinesis Video Streams
    • Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
    • Stream and process Apache Server Logs using Amazon Kinesis Lab
  • Big Data Storage Solutions
    • AWS data storage options
    • Storage solutions concepts
    • Factors in choosing a data store
  • Big data Processing and Analytics
    • Big Data processing and analytics
    • Amazon Athena
    • Utilize Amazon Athena to Analyze Log Data Lab
  • Apache Hadoop and Amazon EMR
    • Introduction to Amazon EMR and Apache Hadoop
    • Best practices for ingesting data
    • Amazon EMR and its architecture
    • Store and Query Data on Amazon DynamoDB Lab
  • Using Amazon EMR
    • Develop and run the application
    • Launch the cluster
    • Handle output from the completed jobs
  • Hadoop Programming Frameworks
    • Hadoop frameworks
    • Other frameworks for use on Amazon EMR
    • Process Server Logs with Hive on Amazon EMR Lab
  • Web Interfaces on Amazon EMR
    • Hue on Amazon EMR
    • Monitor the cluster
    • Run Pig Scripts in Hue on Amazon EMR Lab
  • Apache Spark on Amazon EMR
    • Apache Spark
    • Utilize Spark
    • Processing NY Taxi Data Using Apache Spark Lab
  • Using AWS Glue to Automate ETL Workloads
    • What is AWS Glue?
    • AWS Glue: Job orchestration
  • Amazon Redshift and Big Data
    • Data warehouses vs. traditional databases
    • Amazon Redshift
    • Amazon Redshift architecture
  • Securing Your Amazon Deployments
    • Secure your Amazon deployments
    • Amazon EMR security overview
    • AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) overview
    • Secure data
    • Amazon Kinesis security overview
    • Amazon DynamoDB security overview
    • Amazon Redshift security overview
  • Managing Big Data Costs
    • Total cost considerations for Amazon EMR
    • Amazon EC2 pricing models
    • Amazon Kinesis pricing models
    • Cost considerations for Amazon DynamoDB
    • Cost considerations and pricing models for Amazon Redshift
    • Optimize cost with AWS
  • Visualizing and Orchestrating Big Data
    • Visualize big data
    • Amazon QuickSight
    • Orchestrate a big data workflow
    • Utilize TIBCO Spotfire to visualize data Lab
  • Big Data Design Patterns
    • Common architectures
  • Course Wrap-up
    • What's next?
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