AWS Cloud Quest: Data Analytics

   

AWS Cloud Quest is a role-based learning game that helps you build practical AWS skills through exercises and hands-on activities using AWS services. Within AWS Cloud Quest, there are roles you can choose from several technical domains. After starting AWS Cloud Quest, choose the Data Analytics Role to use AWS Analytics services to build modern architectures.

AWS Cloud Quest - Data Analytics Role

The Cloud Quest Data Analytics role will guide you on using AWS Analytics services to develop modern architectures. You will gain experience working with scalable data lakes, data warehousing, real-time data ingestion, big data analytics, log analytics, streaming analytics, data storage, and business intelligence dashboards.

How does it work?

Players enter a virtual city and choose a pre-defined role like "Security Specialist", “Serverless Developer” or “Machine Learning", that enable quests tailored to the chosen role. As players progress through the game, they will earn rewards and status for completing activities that unlock new learning areas.

Data Analytics Role Assignments

Cloud Computing Essentials Amazon S3

Cloud First StepsAmazon EC2, AWS Infrastructure

Computing SolutionsAmazon EC2

Cloud EconomicsAmazon EC2, AWS Pricing Calculator

Networking ConceptsAmazon EC2, Amazon VPC

Databases in PracticeAmazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

Serverless FoundationsAWS Lambda

Core Security ConceptsAWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon EC2

Data Ingestion MethodsAmazon Kinesis


First NoSQL DatabaseAmazon DynamoDB

Design NoSQL DatabasesAmazon DynamoDB, AWS Cloud9

Data LakesAmazon S3, AWS Lambda

Querying the Data LakeAmazon S3, AWS Lambda, Amazon Athena


Daily Batch ExtractionAmazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon Athena, AWS Glue, Amazon S3

Federated QueriesAmazon DynamoDB, Amazon Athena, AWS Glue

Cloud Data WarehouseAmazon S3, AWS Glue, Amazon Redshift

Populating the Data CatalogAWS Glue, AWS Lambda, Amazon S3, Amazon Athena

Streaming IngestionAmazon Kinesis, Amazon Athena, Amazon S3, Amazon SQS

Documents Indexing and SearchAmazon OpenSearch Service, AWS Glue, AWS

Distributed Large-Scale Data ProcessingAmazon EMR

Event-Driven Serverless ETLAmazon S3, Amazon Redshift, AWS Glue

Securing the Data LakeAmazon Athena, AWS Glue, AWS Lake Formation, Amazon S3