Let’s Ship It — with AWS! Data Analytics

Have you ever wondered how to choose the right data technologies for your business? Look no further! We’ll walk through the important steps, including how to connect business requirements to technical decisions when deciding on databases, data warehouses, data lakes, and more.

Instructor: Kevin Shaffer-Morrison, Skye Hart

Building a data pipeline is a critical part of any good data architecture. Together, we’ll break down different strategies and types of pipelines that you can build. Once we’ve learned about them, we’ll actually deploy our own serverless data streaming pipeline together.

Instructor: Kevin Shaffer-Morrison, Skye Hart

The cloud empowers organizations to consolidate diverse data into a scalable data lake, enabling analysts to uncover impactful insights. Massive compute capacity drives real-time analytics and predictive modeling with machine learning. Data visualization and BI tools share insights across the organization to inform better decision making. Cloud data services break down silos, enhance customer understanding, optimize operations, reduce costs, identify new revenue opportunities, and strategically improve competitive advantage.

Instructor: Kevin Shaffer-Morrison, Skye Hart

In our fourth episode, we get hands-on and drive through the AWS console to create our data lake resources. You will get to see just how easy it can be to build a data pipeline, learn the common pitfalls that developers make, and the art of the possible for your data pipeline. We discuss low-code data pipelines to make data management even more simple.

Instructor: Kevin Shaffer-Morrison, Skye Hart, Stuart Fox

In our fifth episode, you’ll learn tips and tricks on how to monetize your data. We will discuss operational data insights, user trends, key insight monitoring as well as external ways to monetize your data including the AWS Data Exchange and AWS Marketplace. Tune in for an exciting episode and get ready to make use of all your data!

Instructor: Kevin Shaffer-Morrison, Skye Hart

In our final episode, we take a glance at the future of data in the cloud. Our experts talk about generative AI and the future of processing, generating, and analyzing large amounts of data like we have never seen before. You’ll learn key industry trends and how leaders in the space are leveraging AWS to build transformative data architectures.

Instructor: Kevin Shaffer-Morrison, Skye Hart, Gwen Chen

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In our first episode, we dive into the complexities of data management and gain an understanding of data types, data sources, processing, and consumption. You’ll learn about the importance of data centralization, governance, and security, and the unique value of taking charge of your data and what it means to have a modern data strategy in 2023.

Instructor: Kevin Shaffer-Morrison, Skye Hart, Stuart Fox

Our second episode, ‘“Car Shopping for Data Stores” takes a different approach—a lively discussion about which data store(s) are best for your workload. We dive into customer use-cases with various data types, access patterns, processing needs (real-time/batch), NoSQL or SQL, serverless or managed, and beyond to help you find the best technologies for your business needs.

Instructor: Kevin Shaffer-Morrison, Skye Hart, Stuart Fox

In our third episode, "Let's Build a Data Pipeline (Part 1)" we take a look at common data architectures for efficient, cost effective, and performant results! We discuss real-world scenarios with companies across different industries and how they tackle the world’s most challenging problems with innovative, agile data pipelines. We look through the lens of the Well-Architected framework to ensure our architectures are cost-effective, performance, secure, reliable, sustainable, and operationally excellent.

Instructor: Kevin Shaffer-Morrison, Skye Hart, Stuart Fox

In our fourth episode, we get hands-on and drive through the AWS console to create our data lake resources. You will get to see just how easy it can be to build a data pipeline, learn the common pitfalls that developers make, and the art of the possible for your data pipeline. We discuss low-code data pipelines to make data management even more simple.

Instructor: Kevin Shaffer-Morrison, Skye Hart, Stuart Fox

In our fifth episode, you’ll learn tips and tricks on how to monetize your data. We will discuss operational data insights, user trends, key insight monitoring as well as external ways to monetize your data including the AWS Data Exchange and AWS Marketplace. Tune in for an exciting episode and get ready to make use of all your data!

Instructor: Kevin Shaffer-Morrison, Skye Hart

In our final episode, we take a glance at the future of data in the cloud. Our experts talk about generative AI and the future of processing, generating, and analyzing large amounts of data like we have never seen before. You’ll learn key industry trends and how leaders in the space are leveraging AWS to build transformative data architectures.

Instructor: Kevin Shaffer-Morrison, Skye Hart, Gwen Chen

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

Welcome to the first episode of our AWS Power Hour: Data Analytics series! In this episode, we will introduce you to the AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty Certification. Then we will take a look at AWS data analytics services and how they integrate with each other. Stay tuned for future episodes as we dive deeper into AWS data analytics services and how they fit in the data lifecycle of collection, storage, processing, and visualization.

Instructor: Mai Nishitani and Mark Stuart

Welcome to the second episode of AWS Power Hour: Data Analytics. In this episode, we will discuss data collection, storage, and management. We will walk through data persistence, fault tolerance, durability, and reliability. Then, we will talk about data lifecycle and data retention to address cost requirements.

Instructor: Mai Nishitani and Mark Stuart

In the third episode of AWS Power Hour: Data Analytics, we will spend time discussing data processing. This episode will focus on transforming and preparing data for analysis, with some options to automation data processing solutions.

Instructor: Mai Nishitani and Mark Stuart

In this episode, we will dive into analyzing and visualizing our data. Using services like Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon OpenSearch, and Amazon QuickSight, we discuss how you can better understand the data we have and how it drives the decisions you make.

Instructor: Mai Nishitani and Mark Stuart

At AWS, security is the top priority. In the final episode of AWS Power Hour: Data Analytics, we will review the AWS Well Architected Framework Data Analytics Lens and how you can apply security in your workflow. Then, we will wrap up the episode with next steps as you continue your journey to earn your AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty certification!

Instructor: Mai Nishitani and Mark Stuart

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In the first episode of our AWS Power Hour: Database series, we will review the certification exam guide and resources for you to study as we progress through this series. We will then introduce you to designing a database on AWS. We’ll talk about the differences between database types and using AWS Managed Services or deploying a database on an EC2 instance.

Instructor: Kevin Shaffer-Morrison and Stuart Fox

In this episode, you’ll learn about costs around AWS database solutions, followed by a discussion of how to deploy your database in the AWS Cloud. We will finish the episode by working through data preparation and migration strategies using native database and AWS managed tools.

Instructor: Kevin Shaffer-Morrison and Stuart Fox

In this episode, you’ll learn about management and governance. We will talk about database security, controlling access, and automating operational tasks. This includes backups, encryption, and upgrading your database.

Instructor: Kevin Shaffer-Morrison and Stuart Fox

Monitoring databases is a critical component to ensure we have a healthy workload with properly provisioned resources. In this episode, we will review the tools available for us to react, respond, and troubleshoot as needed. Once we have our database monitored, we will also discuss some performance optimization options for different AWS database solutions.

Instructor: Kevin Shaffer-Morrison and Stuart Fox

In the final episode of AWS Power Hour: Database, we will review topics from the previous four episode. Then, we will cover next steps as you continue your journey to become AWS Certified Database - Specialty certified.

Instructor: Kevin Shaffer-Morrison and Stuart Fox

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

Join us to learn about designing networks on AWS—including AWS Regional resources, on-premises resources, and edge network services—to achieve a design that supports global traffic reliably. This episode will focus on an overview of services and features to use, rather than their configuration or implementation. You’ll learn about high availability, scalability, and DNS.

Instructor: Harrison Sherwin and Chris Woodlief

In this episode, you’ll learn about implementing routing strategies to support global traffic reliably. We’ll look at routing options with AWS Direct Connect, AWS Transit Gateway, VPC peering, and VPNs.

Instructor: Harrison Sherwin and Chris Woodlief

An observability strategy is key to understanding the health and security of our networks. In this episode, you’ll learn about options like VPC Flow Logs, CloudWatch, Route 53 health checks, and VPC Traffic Mirroring. We’ll wrap-up by discussing how to automate network operations on AWS.

Instructor: Harrison Sherwin and Chris Woodlief

In our final episode, we’ll be focusing on AWS inbound and outbound network security features and services, such as AWS WAF, Shield, and Network Firewall. We’ll also discuss inter- and intra-VPC security features such as security groups, network ACLs, and VPC endpoint policies. And with any time remaining, we’ll wrap-up with network encryption options.

Instructor: Harrison Sherwin and Chris Woodlief

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In the first episode of the AWS Power Hour: Machine Learning series, we will introduce you to the AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty exam and cover the exam guide. Then, we will go into details about the data engineering phase of machine learning lifecycle on AWS.

Instructor: Fred Graichen and Ivan Kopas

The second episode of AWS Power Hour: Machine Learning will focus on data preparation, feature engineering and visualization techniques on AWS.

Instructor: Fred Graichen and Ivan Kopas

Since the modeling domain is 36% of the certification exam, this topic deserves an entire episode to itself! In this episode, you’ll learn about training, hyper-parameter tuning, and model evaluation.

Instructor: Fred Graichen and Ivan Kopas

In the final episode of AWS Power Hour: Machine Learning, we will discuss best practices to help you deploy secure and resilient machine learning workloads on AWS. Then, we will cover next steps as you continue your journey to become AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty.

Instructor: Fred Graichen and Ivan Kopas

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes