Planning and Designing Databases on AWS

Master the essentials of planning and designing databases on AWS, perfect for data platform engineers and IT professionals looking to optimize their database solutions with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.

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Essential Skills Gained

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Understand database design considerations on Amazon EC2.

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Explore relational database services like Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora.

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Learn about non-relational services including Amazon DynamoDB and Neptune.

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Evaluate AWS database services to match your workload requirements.

Format

  • Instructor-led
  • 3 days with lectures and hands-on labs.

Audience

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

Description

This course will help you 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 non relational 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.

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Upcoming Course Dates

August 11-13, 2025

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Virtual: Online - America/Los_Angeles

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$2025

August 13-15, 2025

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Virtual: Online - US/Eastern

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$2025

October 13-15, 2025

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Virtual: Online - America/Chicago

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$2025

Course Outline

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Module 1: Database Concepts and General Guidelines

Module 2: Database Planning and Design

Module 3: Databases on Amazon EC2

Module 4: Purpose-Built Databases

Module 5: Databases on Amazon RDS

Module 6: Databases in Amazon Aurora

Module 7: Databases in Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)

Module 8: Amazon DynamoDB Tables

Module 9: Databases in Amazon Neptune

Module 10: Databases in Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (Amazon QLDB)

Module 11: Databases in Amazon ElastiCache

Module 12: Data Warehousing in Amazon Redshift

Module 13: Course Review

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