Engineer Cloud Data for Resiliency & ROI

Overview

Did you know that 96% of organizations experience unplanned downtime, costing an average of $5,600 per minute? This critical reality makes engineering resilient cloud data infrastructure not just a best practice—it's a business imperative. This Short Course was created to help data engineers and platform architects accomplish the mission-critical task of building cloud data warehouses that deliver both optimal ROI and bulletproof reliability. By completing this course, you'll be able to automate infrastructure provisioning with code-based deployment systems, make data-driven decisions on compute and storage configurations that maximize cost-effectiveness, and architect disaster recovery systems that protect against catastrophic failures with minimal data loss. By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Apply Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to provision a cloud data warehouse - Analyze infrastructure cost versus performance across compute and storage options - Create a cross-region disaster recovery architecture with a 15-minute Recovery Point Objective This course is unique because it combines hands-on Terraform automation with real-world TPC-DS benchmarking and enterprise-grade disaster recovery planning—skills that directly translate to building production-ready data platforms. To be successful in this project, you should have a background in SQL, basic cloud computing concepts, and familiarity with data warehouse fundamentals.

Syllabus

Module 1: Apply Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to provision a cloud data warehouse

Learners will master the fundamentals of Infrastructure as Code by creating and deploying Terraform configurations that automatically provision complete cloud data warehouse environments with proper policies and security controls.

Module 2: Analyze infrastructure cost versus performance across compute and storage options

Learners will master systematic cost-performance analysis by executing TPC-DS benchmarks across different warehouse configurations and creating data-driven recommendations for optimal infrastructure sizing.

Module 3: Create a cross-region disaster recovery architecture with a 15-minute Recovery Point Objective

Learners will architect comprehensive disaster recovery systems by implementing cross-region replication, automated failover mechanisms, and recovery procedures that meet stringent 15-minute Recovery Point Objectives for business continuity.