AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty (2023) Hands-on

by Frank Kane, Stéphane Maarek

Released December 2020

Publisher(s): Packt Publishing

ISBN: 9781838983383

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Video description

In this course, you will learn streaming massive data with AWS Kinesis; queuing messages with Simple Queue Service (SQS); wrangling the explosion data from the Internet of Things (IOT); transitioning from small to big data with the AWS Database Migration Service (DMS); storing massive data lakes with the Simple Storage Service (S3); optimizing transactional queries with DynamoDB; tying your big data systems together with AWS Lambda; making unstructured data query-able with AWS Glue, Glue ETL, Glue DataBrew, Glue Studio, and Lake Formation; processing data at an unlimited scale with Elastic MapReduce; applying neural networks at massive scale with deep learning, MXNet, and TensorFlow; applying advanced machine learning algorithms at scale with Amazon SageMaker; analyzing streaming data in real time with Kinesis Analytics; searching and analyzing petabyte-scale data with Amazon OpenSearch (formerly Elasticsearch) Service; querying S3 data lakes with Amazon Athena; hosting massive-scale data warehouses with Redshift and Redshift Spectrum; integrating smaller data with your big data using the Relational Database Service (RDS) and Aurora; visualizing your data interactively with QuickSight; and finally, keeping your data secure with encryption, KMS, HSM, IAM, Cognito, STS, and more.

By the end of this course, you will be well-versed in the essential concepts and major domains necessary to pass the AWS DAS-C01 exam.

What You Will Learn

Store big data with S3 and DynamoDB in a scalable, secure manner
Move and transform massive data streams with Amazon Kinesis
Use the Hadoop ecosystem with AWS using Elastic MapReduce
Discover various methods to analyze big data
Visualize big data in the cloud using AWS QuickSight
Keep your data secure with encryption, KMS, HSM, IAM, Cognito, and STS

Audience

This course is for experienced technologists seeking certification in big data technologies through Amazon Web Services. If you are looking to achieve this certification, it is recommended to have associate-level certification first.

About The Authors

Frank Kane: Frank Kane has spent nine years at Amazon and IMDb, developing and managing the technology that automatically delivers product and movie recommendations to hundreds of millions of customers all the time. He holds 17 issued patents in the fields of distributed computing, data mining, and machine learning. In 2012, Frank left to start his own successful company, Sundog Software, which focuses on virtual reality environment technology and teaches others about big data analysis.

Stéphane Maarek: Stéphane Maarek is a solutions architect, consultant, and software developer who has a particular interest in all things related to big data and analytics. He is also a bestseller instructor on Udemy for his courses on Apache Kafka, Apache NiFi, and AWS Lambda. He loves Apache Kafka and regularly contributes to the Apache Kafka project.

Stéphane has also written a guest blog post that was featured on the Confluent website, the company behind Apache Kafka. He is also an AWS Certified Solutions Architect and has many years of experience with technologies such as Apache Kafka, Apache NiFi, Apache Spark, Hadoop, PostgreSQL, Tableau, Spotfire, Docker, Ansible, and more.