• Online, Self-Paced

Using a hands-on lab approach, explore how to use Amazon Redshift to set up and configure a data warehouse on the cloud. Discover how to interact with the Redshift service using both the console and the AWS CLI.

Learning Objectives

Scalable Data Architectures: Introduction to Amazon Redshift

  • use the Amazon Redshift Quick Launch feature to provision a data warehouse on Amazon Web Services
  • define additional configuration options when provisioning a Redshift cluster by using the default cluster
  • recognize the various tool configuration options available for a Redshift cluster and use the metrics available to optimize a cluster configuration
  • create an IAM role on AWS that includes the necessary permissions to interact with the Redshift and S3 services
  • provision an IAM user that can be used to connect to and interact with AWS using the CLI
  • install the AWS command line interface and use it to create and delete Redshift clusters
  • use the Redshift Query Editor to create tables, load data, and run queries
  • recall the features of Amazon Redshift and the commands and configurations needed to work with Redshift using the CLI

Framework Connections

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