Overview
Build batch data analytics solutions using Amazon EMR to optimize cost and performance.
- Learn to build batch data analytics solutions using Amazon EMR, an enterprise-grade Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop managed service.
- Learn how Amazon EMR integrates with open source projects such as Apache Hive, Hue, and HBase, and with AWS services such as AWS Glue and AWS Lake Formation.
- Learn to use EMR Notebooks to support both analytics and machine learning workloads.
- Learn to apply security, performance, and cost management best practices to the operation of Amazon EMR.
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Skills Covered
In this course, you will learn to:
- Compare the features and benefits of data warehouses, data lakes, and modern data architectures
- Design and implement a batch data analytics solution
- Identify and apply appropriate techniques, including compression, to optimize 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 visualization 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
Prerequisites
Students with a minimum one-year experience managing open-source data frameworks such as Apache Spark or Apache Hadoop will benefit from this course.
We suggest the AWS Hadoop Fundamentals course for those that need a refresher on Apache Hadoop. We recommend that attendees of this course have:
- Completed either AWS Technical Essentials or Architecting on AWS
- Completed either Building Data Lakes on AWS or Getting Started with AWS Glue
Target Audience
This course is intended for:
- Data platform engineers
- Architects and operators who build and manage data analytics pipelines
Course Curriculum
Module A: Overview of Data Analytics and the Data Pipeline
Data analytics use cases
Using the data pipeline for analytics
Module 1: Introduction to Amazon EMR
Using Amazon EMR in analytics solutions
Amazon EMR cluster architecture
Interactive Demo 1: Launching an Amazon EMR cluster
Cost management strategies
Module 2: Data Analytics Pipeline Using Amazon EMR: Ingestion and Storage
Storage optimization with Amazon EMR
Data ingestion techniques
Module 3: High-Performance Batch Data Analytics Using Apache Spark on Amazon EMR
Apache Spark on Amazon EMR use cases
Why Apache Spark on Amazon EMR
Spark concepts
Interactive Demo 2: Connect to an EMR cluster and perform Scala commands using the Spark shell
Transformation, processing, and analytics
Using notebooks with Amazon EMR
Practice Lab 1: Low-latency data analytics using Apache Spark on Amazon EMR
Module 4: Processing and Analyzing Batch Data with Amazon EMR and Apache Hive
Using Amazon EMR with Hive to process batch data
Transformation, processing, and analytics
Practice Lab 2: Batch data processing using Amazon EMR with Hive
Introduction to Apache HBase on Amazon EMR
Module 5: Serverless Data Processing
Serverless data processing, transformation, and analytics
Using AWS Glue with Amazon EMR workloads
Practice Lab 3: Orchestrate data processing in Spark using AWS Step Functions
Module 6: Security and Monitoring of Amazon EMR Clusters
Securing EMR clusters
Interactive Demo 3: Client-side encryption with EMRFS
Monitoring and troubleshooting Amazon EMR clusters
Demo: Reviewing Apache Spark cluster history
Module 7: Designing Batch Data Analytics Solutions
Batch data analytics use cases
Activity: Designing a batch data analytics workflow
Module B: Developing Modern Data Architectures on AWS
Modern data architectures
Dates & Locations
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