Planning and Designing Databases on AWS

Overview

In this course, you will learn about the process of planning and designing both relational and nonrelational databases. You will learn the design considerations for hosting databases on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). You will learn about our relational database services including Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon Aurora, and Amazon Redshift. You will also learn about our nonrelational database services including Amazon DocumentDB, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon Neptune, and Amazon QLDB. By the end of this course, you will be familiar with the planning and design requirements of all 8 of these AWS databases services, their pros and cons, and how to know which AWS databases service is right for your workloads.

Audience

• Data platform engineers, Database administrators, Solutions architects, IT professionals

Suggested Prerequisites

• Relational Database experience
• Understanding of AWS foundational services: EC2, VPC, IAM
• Attended one of Architecting on AWS, Developing on AWS, or Systems Operations on AWS

Topics

• Planning and Designing Databases on AWS
• Database Concepts and General Guidelines
• Database Planning and Design
• Databases on Amazon EC2
• Purpose-Built Databases
• Databases on Amazon RDS
• Databases in Amazon Aurora
• Databases in Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Amazon DynamoDB Tables
• Databases in Amazon Neptune
• Databases in Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (Amazon QLDB)
• Databases in Amazon ElastiCache
• Data Warehousing in Amazon Redshift