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Customer data comes in all shapes and forms and from every direction. It's more critical than ever to connect and process all of that data, so that you can enable more data-driven decisions. In this course, Glenn Gillen will show you how to synthesize all of that disparate data using the power of tools like AWS IoT Analytics, Amazon Cognito, AWS Lambda, and Amazon SageMaker, to name a few. You will learn how to aggregate, process, store, and deliver actionable data in new and powerful ways.

Foundational deep dive into Amazon Aurora, covering its distributed storage architecture, replication, failover behavior, performance characteristics, and the differences between Aurora Standard, I/O-Optimized, and Serverless v2 configurations.

Introduction to Amazon Aurora, AWS's MySQL- and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database engine. Covers cluster architecture, storage and replication design, performance characteristics, and how to provision and connect to an Aurora cluster.

Comparison of Amazon Aurora MySQL and Amazon RDS for MySQL, focusing on differences in architecture, performance, high availability, and pricing. Helps practitioners choose between the two managed MySQL options based on workload requirements.

Covers monitoring and logging for Amazon RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL, including Enhanced Monitoring, Performance Insights, CloudWatch metrics and logs, and analyzing PostgreSQL log output for performance and security insights.

Introductory module for the advanced PostgreSQL learning plan covering Amazon Aurora and RDS. Outlines the curriculum across architecture, performance, security, monitoring, and migration topics.

Covers security for Amazon RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL, including network isolation, IAM database authentication, Kerberos, encryption at rest and in transit, audit logging, and integration with Secrets Manager.

Demonstrates using Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases with structured data backed by Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, enabling natural-language queries over relational data with grounded SQL generation and result synthesis.
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