Data Analytics on AWS Virtual Classroom Live March 31, 2025

Course Overview

The AWS Lake Formation Service

• First, What is a Data Lake?
• Data Lakes vs. Traditional Data Warehouses
• Characteristics of Data Warehouses and Data Lakes
• Now, What is AWS Lake Formation?
• What are the Benefits of Using Lake Formation?
• How Lake Formation Works
• The Lake Formation Dashboard
• AWS Lake Formation Pricing

AWS Simple Storage Service

• What is AWS Simple Storage Service (S3)
• AWS S3
• Storage
• Regions
• S3 Regions
• Getting started with S3
• Using BitTorrent
• More on Buckets
• Bucket Configurable Properties
• Advanced S3 Bucket Properties
• The Bucket Creation Dialog in the Management Console
• Bucket Permissions
• Bucket-level Operations
• Authorization of REST Requests
• Adding Cross-Origin Resource Sharing Configuration
• Event Notifications
• The Requester Pays Option
• The Object Key
• Object Versioning
• Example of Object Properties
• Object Storage Class Levels
• Object-level Operations
• Object Lifecycle Configuration
• Amazon S3 Data Consistency Model
• Observable Data Consistency Behaviors
• Eventually Consistent Reads vs Consistent Reads
• Amazon S3 Security
• S3 Use Case: Backup and Archiving
• Another S3 Use Case: Static Web Hosting
• More on Static Web Hosting
• S3 Static Website Hosting Dialog in Management Console
• S3 Use Case: Disaster Recovery
• AWS S3 Pricing
• Storage Pricing
• Request Pricing
• Data Transfer Pricing
• Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration
• How to Enable Transfer Acceleration
• Enabling Transfer Acceleration in the Management Console
• Amazon S3 SLA Definitions
• Amazon S3 SLA Service Commitment
• S3 CLI

Introduction to the Snowflake Cloud Data Platform

• What is Snowflake?
• Certifications
• Snowflake Conceptual Architecture
• Core Underlying Design Considerations
• Core Services and Tools
• Snowflake Editions
• The Standard Edition
• The Enterprise Edition
• The Business Critical Edition
• Virtual Private Snowflake
• Billing: The Cost Components
• Data Storage Segments
• Parts of Snowflake that Incur Compute-related Costs
• Snowflake Quickstart

Snowflake's Web UI

• Web UI (Web Portal)
• The Landing Page
• Snowflake Roles
• The Roles UI
• Databases
• Shares
• Data Marketplace
• The Warehouses UI
• Worksheets
• History
• A History Sample
• Account
• Operational Transparency: Controlling the Usage of Your Account
• Create Network Policy Dialog (under Account > Policies)
• Preview App

Visualization and Reporting

• Amazon QuickSight
• SPICE
• Data Analyses
• Visuals
• Sheets
• Dashboards
• Typical Amazon QuickSight Workflow
• Create a Data Set
• Create an Analysis
• Create a Visual Manually
• Amazon Athena
• Amazon Athena and AWS Data Catalog
• Query Data Using Amazon Athena
• What is Tableau
• Create a Report Using Tableau

Introduction to AWS Glue

• What is AWS Glue?
• AWS Glue Components
• Managing Notebooks
• Putting it Together: The AWS Glue Environment Architecture
• AWS Glue Main Activities
• Additional Glue Services
• AWS Glue Pricing
• When To Use AWS Glue?
• Integration with other AWS Services

AWS Glue PySpark Extensions

• AWS Glue and Spark
• The DynamicFrame Object
• The DynamicFrame API
• The GlueContext Object
• Glue Transforms
• A Sample Glue PySpark Script
• Using PySpark
• AWS Glue PySpark SDK

Lab Exercises

• Lab 1. Using S3 Through Management Console
• Lab 2. Signing Up for the Free Trial of Snowflake
• Lab 3. The Snowflake Web UI
• Lab 4. Creating and Working with Databases in Snowflake
• Lab 5. AWS Glue Overview
• Lab 6. AWS Glue Crawlers and Classifiers
• Lab 7. Creating an S3 Bucket for AWS Glue ETL Script Output
• Lab 8. Creating and Working with Glue Scripts
• Lab 9. Using PySpark API Directly
• Lab 10. Understanding AWS Glue ETL Jobs

Prerequisites

Participants must have a general knowledge of a modern programming language.