AWS Discovery Days – Fundamentals of Modern Data Strategy

Event description

Organizations need a data strategy to succeed, but there’s no one-size fits all approach. Every organization will have unique objectives and obstacles. Join this event to learn how to modernize, unify, and innovate your way to a modern data strategy with AWS.

• Level: Fundamental
• Duration: 1.5 hours

Key topics covered

During this event, you will learn:

• How AWS services help you modernize, unify, and innovate your data infrastructure
• How to use AWS services to provide secure and well-governed access to data
• How to innovate with AI/ML by harnessing your data with built-in ML

Intended audience

This event is intended for:

• Data architects, data scientists, and data analysts new to the AWS Cloud
• Solutions architects
• Database administrators

Recommended follow-up training and resources

We recommend that attendees of this event continue learning with these:

Courses

• Building Data Analytics Solutions Using Amazon Redshift
• Building Data Lakes on AWS
• Data Warehousing on AWS
• Planning and Designing Databases on AWS

Event outline

Section 1: Migration overview

• Business value of a modern data strategy
• Challenges
• Use cases
• Traditional vs. cloud
• Modern data strategy on AWS

Section 2: Modernize

• Relational databases
• Purpose-built databases

Section 3: Unify

• Data lakes with Amazon S3
• Lake house approach on AWS
• Purpose-built data services
• Breaking down data silos
• Unified governance

Section 4: Innovate

• Machine learning (ML) services
• Artificial intelligence (AI) services
• Data stores, data lakes, and BI tools with built-in ML

Section 5: Next steps

• Resources to continue learning