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DynamoDB: From Basic To Advance

Gain insights into DynamoDB’s operations, scalability, and interactions. Discover AWS services like DAX and Cloudwatch. Delve into integrating DynamoDB with applications to handle millions of transactions per second.

Beginner

36 Lessons

15h

Certificate of Completion

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1 Assessment

15 Playgrounds

6 Quizzes

Course Overview

What You'll Learn

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Course Overview

This course provides in-depth knowledge of DynamoDB, which is a fast NoSQL database service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). With the rapid adoption of IoT devices and the prevalence of machine learning applications, the storage of information and the speed of interaction becomes critical. DyanmoDB is a storage system that can handle millions of transactions per second without affecting user experience. In this course, you’ll start by learning about the internal workings of DyanmoDb. Next, you’ll le...Show More

What You'll Learn

An understanding of what DynamoDB is and how it works

Working knowledge of integrating DynamoDB with other AWS services

Familiarity with AWS services for DynamoDB, including DAX and Cloudwatch

The ability to properly process the information to be stored in DynamoDB

An understanding of what DynamoDB is and how it works

Course Content

Introduction

8 Lessons

Get familiar with DynamoDB, relational vs. non-relational databases, consistency, CAP theorem, serverless computing, and AWS account configuration.

Introduction to the Course

Relational vs. Non-relational Databases

What is Consistency in Databases?

CAP Theorem

What is Serverless?

Introduction to DynamoDB

Configuring AWS Account

Quiz

Getting Started With DynamoDB

6 Lessons

Look at DynamoDB's data storage methods, key structures, secondary indexes, and table creation steps.

How Data is Stored

How Keys Work

Local Secondary Index

Global Secondary Index

Demo: Creating My First Table in DynamoDB

Quiz

Internal Working of DynamoDB

5 Lessons

Break apart DynamoDB's partitions, RCU and WCU metrics, and functionality of global tables.

Partitions

RCU: Read Capacity Units

WCU: Write Capacity Units

Global Tables

Quiz

Tolerating Peaks of Requests

6 Lessons

Apply your skills to manage request peaks with DynamoDB's scalable configurations and optimizations.

What is Scalability?

Provisioned Capacity and DynamoDB Autoscaling

On-Demand Capacity and Scaling

DAX: DynamoDB Accelerator

Demo: Configuring Capacity in DynamoDB

Quiz

Interacting With DynamoDB

6 Lessons

Take a closer look at efficient data retrieval, pagination, transactions, TTL, and data operations in DynamoDB.

Scan vs. Query

Pagination

It is Possible to Execute Transactions

TTL: Time to Live

Demo: Storing and Retrieving Information

Quiz

Integration With External Services

5 Lessons

Tackle integrating DynamoDB with streams, CloudWatch, IAM, and the AWS CLI.

What is a DynamoDB stream?

Monitoring with Cloudwatch

Amazon IAM

Quiz

Appendix

DynamoDB: From Basic to Advance

Assessment

Course Author

Santiago Diaz

Cloud Lab

Working with NoSQL Databases: A Beginner's Guide to AWS DynamoDB

beginner

1 hour

Cloud Lab

Working with NoSQL Databases: A Beginner's Guide to AWS DynamoDB

Learn essential skills for Amazon DynamoDB, including table creation, data management, and query optimization.

beginner

1 hour

Cloud Lab

Understanding Global Tables in DynamoDB

beginner

1 hour 30 min

Cloud Lab

Understanding Global Tables in DynamoDB

Learn to create and manage global tables in DynamoDB for high availability and low latency across regions.

beginner

1 hour 30 mins

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