Live-Online: Building Batch Data Analytics Solutions on AWS

Learn how Amazon EMR integrates with open-source projects such as Apache Hive, Hue, and HBase, and with AWS services such as AWS Glue and AWS Lake Formation. The course addresses data collection, ingestion, cataloging, storage, and processing components in the context of Spark and Hadoop. You will learn to use EMR Notebooks to support both analytics and machine learning workloads. Further topics such as security, performance, and cost management on Amazon EMR round off the course.

Module 1: Overview of Data Analytics and Data Pipelines

• Data analytics use cases 
• Using the data pipeline for analytics

Module 2: Introduction to Amazon EMR

• Using Amazon EMR in analytics solutions
• Amazon EMR cluster architecture
• Interactive demo: Launching an Amazon EMR cluster
• Cost management strategies

Module 3: Data Analytics Pipeline Using Amazon EMR: Ingestion and Storage

• Storage optimization with Amazon EMR
• Data ingestion techniques

Module 4: 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: Low-latency data analytics using Apache Spark on Amazon EMR

Module 5: 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: Batch data processing using Amazon EMR with Hive
• Introduction to Apache HBase on Amazon EMR

Module 6: Serverless Data Processing

• Serverless data processing, transformation, and analytics
• Using AWS Glue with Amazon EMR workloads
• Practice lab: Orchestrate data processing in Spark using AWS Step Functions

Module 7: Security and Monitoring of Amazon EMR Clusters

• Securing EMR clusters
• Interactive demo: Client-side encryption with EMRFS
• Monitoring and troubleshooting Amazon EMR clusters
• Demo: Reviewing Apache Spark cluster history

Module 8: Designing Batch Data Analytics Solutions

• Batch data analytics use cases
• Activity: Designing a batch data analytics workflow

Module 9: Developing Modern Data Architectures on AWS

• Modern data architectures

• Comparing the features and benefits of data warehouses, data lakes, and modern data architectures
• Designing and implementing a batch data analytics solution
• Identifying and applying appropriate techniques, including compression, to optimize data storage
• Selecting and deploying appropriate options to ingest, transform, and store data 
• Choosing the appropriate instance and node types, clusters, auto scaling, and network topology for a particular business use case
• Understand how data storage and processing affect the analysis and visualization mechanisms needed to gain actionable business insights
• Securing data at rest and in transit
• Monitoring analytics workloads to identify and remediate problems
• Applying cost management best practices

This course prepares you for AWS Data Analytics certification, among other courses of the AWS Data Analytics job role track.

This course is intended for the following job roles:

• Data Analytics

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• a minimum one-year experience managing open-source data frameworks such as Apache Spark or Apache Hadoop
• basic knowledge on AWS Hadoop Fundamentals or a refresher on Apache Hadoop
• first knowledge of building data analytics solutions using Amazon Redshift
• first knowledge of data warehousing on AWS