Overview

Understand the data analytics pipeline and prepare to deploy data lakes that solve your business’s data challenges.

Do you want to develop business insights from siloed data stores with the help of a data lake? This Building Data Lakes on AWS course helps you practice building in a hands-on environment and walks you through several data lake architectures and the first three stages of the data analytics pipeline: ingestion, cataloging, and processing.

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  • Official training material included
  • Practical, scenario-based learning – focus on application, not just theory
  • Excellent Passing Rate

Skills Covered

In this course, you will learn to:

  • Apply data lake methodologies in planning and designing a data lake
  • Articulate the components and services required for building an AWS data lake
  • Secure a data lake with appropriate permission
  • Ingest, store, and transform data in a data lake
  • Query, analyze, and visualize data within a data lake

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

  • Completed the AWS Technical Essentials classroom course
  • One year of experience building data analytics pipelines or have completed the Data Analytics Fundamentals digital course

Target Audience

This course is intended for:

  • Data platform engineers
  • Solutions architects
  • IT professionals

Course Curriculum

Module 1: Introduction to Data Lakes

  • Describe the value of data lakes
  • Compare data lakes and data warehouses
  • Describe the components of a data lake
  • Recognize common architectures built on data lakes

Module 2: Data Ingestion, Cataloging, and Preparation

  • Describe the relationship between data lake storage and data ingestion
  • Describe AWS Glue crawlers and how they are used to create a data catalog
  • Identify data formatting, partitioning, and compression for efficient storage and query
  • Lab 1: Set up a simple data lake

Module 3: Data Processing and Analytics

  • Recognize how data processing applies to a data lake
  • Use AWS Glue to process data within a data lake
  • Describe how to use Amazon Athena to analyze data in a data lake

Module 4: Building a Data Lake with AWS Lake Formation

  • Describe the features and benefits of AWS Lake Formation
  • Use AWS Lake Formation to create a data lake
  • Understand the AWS Lake Formation security model
  • Lab 2: Build a data lake using AWS Lake Formation

Module 5: Additional Lake Formation Configurations

  • Automate AWS Lake Formation using blueprints and workflows
  • Apply security and access controls to AWS Lake Formation
  • Match records with AWS Lake Formation FindMatches
  • Visualize data with Amazon QuickSight
  • Lab 3: Automate data lake creation using AWS Lake Formation blueprints
  • Lab 4: Data visualization using Amazon QuickSight

Module 6: Architecture and Course Review

  • Post course knowledge check
  • Architecture review
  • Course review

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