Day 1
Module 0: Course Introduction
Module 1: AWS Purpose-Built Databases
- Discussing well-architected databases
- Analyzing workload requirements
- Choosing the data model
- Choosing the right purpose-built database
- Knowledge check
Module 2: Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
- Discussing a relational database
- What is Amazon RDS?
- Why Amazon RDS?
- Amazon RDS design considerations
- Knowledge check
Module 3: Amazon Aurora
- What is Amazon Aurora?
- Why Amazon Aurora?
- Aurora design considerations
- Knowledge check
Challenge Lab 1: Working with Amazon Aurora databases
Day 2
Class Activity 1: Choose the Right Relational Database
Module 4: Amazon DynamoDB
- Discussing a key value database
- What is DynamoDB?
- Why DynamoDB?
- DynamoDB design considerations
- Knowledge check
Module 5: Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)
- Discussing a wide-column database
- What is Apache Cassandra?
- What is Amazon Keyspaces?
- Why Amazon Keyspaces?
- Amazon Keyspaces design considerations
- Knowledge check
Module 6: Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)
- Discussing a document database
- What is Amazon DocumentDB?
- Why Amazon DocumentDB?
- Amazon DocumentDB design considerations
- Knowledge check
Module 7: Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (Amazon QLDB)
- Discussing a ledger database
- What is Amazon QLDB?
- Why Amazon QLDB?
- Amazon QLDB design considerations
- Knowledge check
Class Activity 2: Choose the Right Nonrelational Database
Challenge Lab 2: Working with Amazon DynamoDB Tables
Day 3
Module 8: Amazon Neptune
- Discussing a graph database
- What is Amazon Neptune?
- Why Amazon Neptune?
- Amazon Neptune design considerations
- Knowledge check
Module 9: Amazon Timestream
- Discussing a timeseries database
- What is Amazon Timestream?
- Why Amazon Timestream?
- Amazon Timestream design considerations
- Knowledge check
Module 10: Amazon ElastiCache
- Discussing an in-memory database
- What is ElastiCache?
- Why ElastiCache?
- ElastiCache design considerations
- Knowledge check
Module 11: Amazon MemoryDB for Redis
- What is Amazon MemoryDB (for Redis)?
- Why Amazon MemoryDB?
- Amazon MemoryDB design considerations
- Knowledge check
Class Activity 3: Let’s Cache In
Module 12: Amazon Redshift
- Discussing a data warehouse
- What is Amazon Redshift?
- Why Amazon Redshift?
- Amazon Redshift design considerations
- Knowledge check
Module 13: Tools for Working with AWS Databases
- Data access and analysis with Amazon Athena
- Data migration with SCT and DMS
Class Activity 4: Overall Picture
Challenge Lab 3: Working with Amazon Redshift clusters