Big Data on AWS: The Big Picture

In this course, you'll gain an overview of Amazon’s most important big data services, then drill down to cover each one. You'll learn the capabilities of each service and even see some demos to make everything concrete.

This course will teach you big data fundamentals in the context of Amazon Web Services (AWS), the leading cloud computing platform. In this course, Big Data on AWS: The Big Picture, you will learn foundational knowledge of big data concepts and the major big data services on AWS. First, you will learn all about core big data concepts, like data lakes, NoSQL and MapReduce. Next, you will discover the array of big data services available on AWS and how they tie together. After that, you'll learn the details of each service and see many of them demoed. When you’re finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of big data on AWS needed to understand which combination of services is best suited to your organization's skill sets and which best meet your organization's needs.