• Course overview
  • Course details
  • Prerequisites

Course overview

About this course

This course offers an in-depth exploration into constructing robust data analytics pipelines on the AWS platform. It equips learners with the skills to leverage AWS services for high-performance analytics, focusing on Batch data processing using tools like Amazon EMR and Apache Spark.

Audience profile
  • Data platform engineers
  • Architects and operators who build and manage data analytics pipelines

Course details

Module A: Overview of Data Analytics and the Data Pipeline
• Data analytics use cases
• Using the data pipeline for analytics

Module 1: Introduction to Amazon EMR
• Using Amazon EMR in analytics solutions
• Amazon EMR cluster architecture
• Interactive Demo 1: Launching an Amazon EMR cluster
• Cost management strategies

Module 2: Data Analytics Pipeline Using Amazon EMR: Ingestion and Storage
• Storage optimization with Amazon EMR
• Data ingestion techniques

Module 3: High-Performance Batch Data Analytics Using Apache Spark on Amazon EMR
• Apache Spark on Amazon EMR use cases
• Why Apache Spark on Amazon EMR
• Spark concepts
• Interactive Demo 2: Connect to an EMR cluster and perform Scala commands using the
Spark shell
• Transformation, processing, and analytics
• Using notebooks with Amazon EMR
• Practice Lab 1: Low-latency data analytics using Apache Spark on Amazon EMR

Module 4: Processing and Analyzing Batch Data with Amazon EMR and Apache Hive
• Using Amazon EMR with Hive to process batch data
• Transformation, processing, and analytics
• Practice Lab 2: Batch data processing using Amazon EMR with Hive
• Introduction to Apache HBase on Amazon EMR

Module 5: Serverless Data Processing
• Serverless data processing, transformation, and analytics
• Using AWS Glue with Amazon EMR workloads
• Practice Lab 3: Orchestrate data processing in Spark using AWS Step Functions

Module 6: Security and Monitoring of Amazon EMR Clusters
• Securing EMR clusters
• Interactive Demo 3: Client-side encryption with EMRFS
• Monitoring and troubleshooting Amazon EMR clusters
• Demo: Reviewing Apache Spark cluster history

Module 7: Designing Batch Data Analytics Solutions
• Batch data analytics use cases
• Activity: Designing a batch data analytics workflow

Module B: Developing Modern Data Architectures on AWS
• Modern data architectures

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Prerequisites

Minimum of 1 year experience managing open-source data frameworks such
Apache Spark, Apache Hadoop, Hive and so on. 

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