AWS Jam Journey: Database

About

AWS Jam is a gamified experiential learning platform that helps you develop your AWS cloud skills through simulated real-world cases. During this Jam Journey, you are going to challenge your AWS Database skills by solving various scenarios created by AWS experts. The course is available for a three-month period to give you time to complete all the challenges at your own pace and schedule.

• Levels: 4 Easy + 2 Intermediate challenges

Intended Audience

This Jam Journey is intended for anyone interested in building their AWS Database skills through real-world challenges. 

Learning Objectives

In this Jam Journey, you will learn to:

• Migrate from the ACME Corp Oracle database to a shiny new Aurora MySQL database
• Set up Audit logging on Amazon RDS MySQL
• Publish them to Amazon CloudWatch
• Build queries on Cloudwatch Log insights that will help you extract useful information
• Configure AWS DMS replication instance, source endpoint, target endpoint, and replication task
• Create mySQL RDS database
• Test the ADR (Accelerate Database Recovery) feature
• Correct Invalid DB links pointing to On-Premises

 

Challenge Information

Challenge Titles Task Number Services Used PrerequisitesPut Your Database to Work 1 AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) None Who Messed Up the Data in My DB Cluster? 2 Amazon RDS; Amazon CloudWatch Basic familiarity with Amazon RDS and Amazon CloudWatch Help Your DBA When On-prem Data Center Database Fails 1 Amazon DMS Basic familiarity with Amazon DMS

Create and Connect to mySQL RDS Instance! 1 Amazon RDS None A Devil of a Time is on Your Skates Now 3 Amazon EC2; Amazon RDS Basic familiarity with Amazon EC2, and RDS SQL Server database Make Them VALID! 3 Amazon RDS Basic familiarity with Amazon RDS for Oracle, and standard SQL client application

Activities

This Jam Journey includes self-paced lab activities set up in a gamified environment. You may expect challenges, tasks, points and clues that are typical in a gamified environment.