Shard Capacity and Scaling
This course provides detail on the AWS Analytic services relevant to the Developer - Associate exam.
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Learning Objectives
- To gain a solid understanding of Amazon Kinesis
- Understand use cases for each of its components
- An awareness of the types of business problems each component addresses
- Understand the fundamentals of streams processing
- Learn about the features of Amazon Kinesis
- Learn about the services that make up Amazon Kinesis
- Learn how to get data in and out of a stream and how to use streams to get data from its source to a destination
- Learn about the limits of Kinesis Data Streams and how to avoid them
- Learn how to protect and secure data within a stream
- Learn about shard capacity, scaling, and limits
- Obtain an in-depth understanding of how a data streaming service is layered and its operations
- Understand how to secure a Kinesis Data Stream
Stephen is the AWS Certification Specialist at Cloud Academy. His content focuses heavily on topics related to certification on Amazon Web Services technologies. He loves teaching and believes that there are no shortcuts to certification but it is possible to find the right path and course of study.
Stephen has worked in IT for over 25 years in roles ranging from tech support to systems engineering. At one point, he taught computer network technology at a community college in Washington state.
Before coming to Cloud Academy, Stephen worked as a trainer and curriculum developer at AWS and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in cloud technologies.
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