A Comprehensive Guide to AWS Databases
Master purpose-built AWS databases. Future-proof your skills by learning to select, deploy, and scale highly available data architectures for production-ready cloud applications.
- Design Cloud-Native Database ArchitecturesArchitect resilient, scalable database solutions on AWS that meet diverse application requirements and workload demands.
- Optimize Database PerformanceImplement performance tuning strategies for AWS databases, ensuring high availability and efficient resource utilization in production environments.
- Lead Database Migration ProjectsManage the migration of existing databases to AWS, applying best practices for data integrity, security, and minimal downtime.
- Evaluate Database Solutions for Business NeedsAssess and recommend the most suitable AWS database services based on specific business requirements and operational constraints.
Naeem ul Haq is the co-founder and CTO of Educative, a hands-on learning platform for software engineers. Before co-founding Educative, he spent seven years as a software engineer at Microsoft, where he worked on the Windows Azure Fabric Controller, a core component of what became Microsoft Azure, and on Remote Desktop for Windows Server. Naeem co-founded Educative in 2015 alongside his brother Fahim to make developer education more interactive and accessible. His courses on Educative cover cloud technologies and full-stack web development, drawing directly from his experience building production infrastructure at Microsoft.
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What You'll Learn
- Understand AWS databases and cloud-native data architecture, focusing on purpose-built solutions for various workloads.
- Analyze different database models, including relational, document, key-value, and graph databases, to optimize performance.
- Implement AWS shared building blocks for secure and resilient database environments, including network isolation and monitoring.
- Evaluate the cross-service decision framework to select appropriate AWS database services based on workload characteristics.
- Demonstrate core operational skills for AWS databases, including capacity planning, observability, and performance tuning.
- Apply advanced features of AWS databases, such as Amazon RDS Proxy and Aurora Serverless, to enhance operational efficiency.
Learning Roadmap
1.
Introduction
Introduction
2.
Common Foundation for All AWS Database Study
Common Foundation for All AWS Database Study
3.
Amazon RDS
Amazon RDS
6 Lessons
6 Lessons
4.
Amazon Aurora
Amazon Aurora
8 Lessons
8 Lessons
5.
Amazon DocumentDB
Amazon DocumentDB
9 Lessons
9 Lessons
6.
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon DynamoDB
11 Lessons
11 Lessons
7.
Amazon ElastiCache
Amazon ElastiCache
10 Lessons
10 Lessons
8.
Amazon KeySpaces
Amazon KeySpaces
9 Lessons
9 Lessons
9.
Amazon MemoryDB
Amazon MemoryDB
8 Lessons
8 Lessons
10.
Amazon Neptune
Amazon Neptune
8 Lessons
8 Lessons
11.
Amazon Timestream
Amazon Timestream
8 Lessons
8 Lessons
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