• Course overview
  • Course details
  • Prerequisites

Course overview

About this course

In this course, you will learn to build streaming data analytics solutions using AWS services, including Amazon Kinesis and Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK). The course addresses the streaming data ingestion, stream storage, and stream processing components of the data analytics pipeline. You will also learn to apply security, performance, and cost management best practices to the operation of Kinesis and Amazon MSK.

Audience profile

• Data engineers and architects
• Developers who want to build and manage real-time applications and streaming data analytics solutions

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Course details

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

Module 1: Using Streaming Services in the Data Analytics Pipeline
• The importance of streaming data analytics
• The streaming data analytics pipeline
• Streaming concepts

Module 2: Introduction to AWS Streaming Services
• Streaming data services in AWS
• Amazon Kinesis in analytics solutions
• Demonstration: Explore Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
• Practice Lab: Setting up a streaming delivery pipeline with Amazon Kinesis
• Using Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
• Introduction to Amazon MSK
• Overview of Spark Streaming

Module 3: Using Amazon Kinesis for Real-time Data Analytics
• Exploring Amazon Kinesis using a clickstream workload
• Creating Kinesis data and delivery streams
• Demonstration: Understanding producers and consumers
• Building stream producers
• Building stream consumers
• Building and deploying Flink applications in Kinesis Data Analytics
• Demonstration: Explore Zeppelin notebooks for Kinesis Data Analytics
• Practice Lab: Streaming analytics with Amazon Kinesis Data
Analytics and Apache Flink

Module 4: Securing, Monitoring, and Optimizing Amazon Kinesis
• Optimize Amazon Kinesis to gain actionable business insights
• Security and monitoring best practices

Module 5: Using Amazon MSK in Streaming Data Analytics Solutions
• Use cases for Amazon MSK
• Creating MSK clusters
• Demonstration: Provisioning an MSK Cluster
• Ingesting data into Amazon MSK
• Practice Lab: Introduction to access control with Amazon MSK
• Transforming and processing in Amazon MSK

Module 6: Securing, Monitoring, and Optimizing Amazon MSK
• Optimizing Amazon MSK
• Demonstration: Scaling up Amazon MSK storage
• Practice Lab: Amazon MSK streaming pipeline and application deployment
• Security and monitoring
• Demonstration: Monitoring an MSK cluster

Module 7: Designing Streaming Data Analytics Solutions
• Use case review
• Class Exercise: Designing a streaming data analytics workflow

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

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Prerequisites

• At least one year of data analytics experience or direct experience building real-time applications or streaming analytics solutions. 
• Completed either Architecting on AWS or Data Analytics Fundamentals
• Completed Building Data Lakes on AWS

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