Amazon Web Services
Introduction to Designing Data Lakes on AWS
Amazon Web Services

Introduction to Designing Data Lakes on AWS

This course is part of AWS Cloud Solutions Architect Professional Certificate

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Morgan Willis
Rafael Lopes

Instructors: Morgan Willis

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Intermediate level
Some related experience required
16 hours (approximately)
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What you'll learn

    • Where to start with a Data Lake?

    • How to build a secure and scalable Data Lake?

    • What are the common components of a Data Lake?

    • Why do you need a Data Lake and what it's value?

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Intermediate level
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There are 4 modules in this course

Welcome to the course! In Week 1, you'll discover why you may want a Data Lake, its characteristics and components, and how it compares to other data data scenarios, such as databases and data warehouses.

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9 videos5 readings2 quizzes1 discussion prompt2 plugins

In Week 2, you'll build on your knowledge of what data lakes are and why they may be a solution for your needs. You'll explore AWS services that can be used in data lake architectures, like Amazon S3, AWS Glue, Amazon Athena, Amazon Elasticsearch Service, LakeFormation, Amazon Rekognition, API Gateway and other services used for data movement, processing and visualization.

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10 videos5 readings2 quizzes

In Week 3, you'll explore specifics of data cataloging and ingestion, and learn about services like AWS Transfer Family, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Kinesis Firehose, Kinesis Analytics, AWS Snow Family, AWS Glue Crawlers, and others. You'll also discover when is the right time to process data--before, after, or while data is being ingested. Given scenarios, you'll be able to easily identify when to process data and match the most appropriate AWS services to each scenario.

What's included

9 videos3 readings1 quiz1 discussion prompt

In Week 4, you are going to dive deeper into data optimization and data processing. Demos around best practices will show you how to optimize your dataset for performance and cost--just by using the right tool for the job! You will also discover data security, data visualization tools, and AWS datasets you can use to experiment and get started.

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11 videos6 readings3 quizzes1 assignment1 plugin

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