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Building Data Analytics Solutions Using Amazon Redshift

  • Length 1 day
  • Price  NZD 850 exc GST
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Why study this course

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.

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What you’ll learn

This course is designed to teach participants how 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 optimise 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 visualisation 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


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Who is the course for?

This course is intended for:

  • Data warehouse engineers

  • Data platform engineers

  • Architects and operators who build and manage data analytics pipelines


Course subjects

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: Analysing 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 Optimising 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 optimisation

  • 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

Please note: This is an emerging technology course. Course outline is subject to change as needed.


Prerequisites

Students with a minimum one-year experience managing data warehouses will benefit from this course.

We recommend that attendees of this course have:


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