Planning and Designing Databases on AWS

Course Overview

In this course, you will learn about planning and designing your solutions with purpose-built Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud databases. The course introduces you to the features and characteristics of each of these databases and shares the design considerations that you should make while using them. By taking this course, you can develop the analytical skills needed to choose the right AWS database for your unique needs.

By the end of the course, you will be able to analyze a business use case, analyze the workload, and assess application requirements to identify and design the most suitable AWS database solution to support your organizational needs.

• Course level: Intermediate
• Duration: 3 days

Activities

This course provides opportunities for you to apply concepts through various activities. It includes instructor-led presentations, demonstrations, individual and group activities, knowledge checks, and hands-on labs to apply concepts.

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

• Summarize the AWS Well-Architected Framework for designing database solutions.
• Choose an appropriate purpose-built database service for a given workload.
• Design a relational database solution to solve a business problem.
• Design a NoSQL database solution to solve a business problem.
• Analyze data from multiple databases to solve a business problem.
• Discuss the security considerations for your database solution.

Intended Audience

This course is intended for learners in the following roles:

• Solutions architects
• Database architects
• Developers

Prerequisites

We recommend the following prerequisites for attendees of this course:

• Familiarity with AWS database services
• Understanding of database design concepts and/or data modeling for relational or nonrelational databases
• Familiarity with cloud computing concepts
• Familiarity with general networking and encryption concepts
• Completion of the digital course Introduction to Building with AWS Databases

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Planning and Designing Databases on AWS Course Outline

Day 1

Module 0: Course Introduction

• Course overview

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

Day 3