This course provides a tour through Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) Big Data stack components, namely DynamoDB, Elastic MapReduce (EMR), Redshift, Data Pipeline, and Jaspersoft BI on AWS. AWS Kinesis is also discussed. All steps for creating an AWS account, setting up a security key pair and working with AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) are covered as well. Numerous demos are provided, demonstrating interaction through AWS components via Web browser user interfaces, command line, and desktop tools.
Author Name: Andrew Brust
Author Description:
Andrew Brust is the founder and CEO of Blue Badge Insights. He advises data and analytics ISVs on winning in the market, solution providers on their service offerings, and customers on their analytics strategy. He writes about Big Data for ZDNet and The New Stack and also co-chairs the Visual Studio Live! series of developer conferences. Andrew is an entrepreneur, a consulting veteran, a former research director, and a current Microsoft Regional Director and MVP.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
  16mins
• Overview
  11mins
• AWS Preliminaries
  27mins
• DynamoDB
  30mins
• Elastic MapReduce
  59mins
• Redshift
  26mins
• Data Pipeline
  29mins
• Jaspersoft
  23mins
• Epilogue
  9mins