AWS: Databases and Migration is the seventh course of Exam Prep (SAP-C02): AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional Specialization. In this course, learners will explore Amazon RDS, covering Multi-AZ and Read Replica deployments, failover simulations, and comparisons with self-managed EC2 databases. The course also examines Data warehousing with Amazon Redshift and in-memory caching with Amazon ElastiCache. A significant portion focuses on Amazon DynamoDB, covering table creation, indexes (LSI & GSI), capacity, consistency, transactions, Streams, and DAX. Finally, the course addresses migration strategies using AWS Migration Hub, Application Discovery Service, and Schema Conversion Tool.
AWS: Databases and Migration
AWS: Databases and Migration
This course is part of Exam Prep (SAP-C02): AWS Solutions Architect - Professional Specialization
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5 hours to complete
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What you'll learn
Learn core features and use cases of RDS, Aurora, Redshift, ElastiCache, and DynamoDB.
Understand AWS migration tools: Migration Hub and SCT.
Deploy Multi-AZ setups, read replicas, and DynamoDB indexes.
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There are 2 modules in this course
Welcome to Week 1. This week, we'll explore Amazon RDS, its core concepts, high availability with Multi-AZ deployments, read replica setup, and simulated failover scenarios. We'll compare Amazon RDS with self-managed databases on EC2 and introduce RDS Proxy for connection management. Additionally, we'll cover Amazon Aurora, including the differences between Serverless v1 and v2. Expanding beyond relational databases, we'll explore Amazon Redshift for data warehousing and Amazon ElastiCache for in-memory data storage. By week's end, you'll gain practical knowledge to design and manage highly available and scalable database architectures on AWS.
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9 videos2 readings2 assignments1 discussion prompt
Welcome to Week 2. This week, we'll dive into Amazon DynamoDB, exploring its core concepts, table creation, and indexing strategies including LSI and GSI. You'll get hands-on experience setting up tables, working with secondary indexes, and understanding compute capacity and read consistency models. We'll cover advanced features like DynamoDB Transactions and DynamoDB Streams for real-time data processing. Finally, you'll learn about DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) to optimize performance, including practical demos connecting EC2 instances to DAX clusters. By week's end, you'll have a strong grasp of building high-performance, scalable applications using Amazon DynamoDB.
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