Master every AWS database service — relational, NoSQL, in-memory, graph, and ledger — and earn the Database Specialty certification.
Curriculum covers
5 modules · 60 hours · 24 live sessions
After this course, you will
Hands-on learning
3 industry capstone projects · built from scratch · yours to keep
Design the data layer for an e-commerce platform: Aurora MySQL for transactional orders, DynamoDB for user sessions and shopping carts, ElastiCache Redis for product catalogue caching, and Aurora Global Database for multi-region reads. Implement DMS migration from a MySQL on-premises source.
Build a social recommendation engine using Amazon Neptune. Load a friend-of-friend graph, write Gremlin traversal queries to find mutual connections, and expose results via an API Gateway-Lambda integration. Implement Neptune backups and clone for blue-green deployments.
Design and test a disaster recovery plan for an Aurora cluster: configure cross-region automated backups, set up an Aurora Global Database with a secondary region, execute a planned failover, measure RTO and RPO, and document the full runbook including the DMS cutover procedure.
Plus 16 guided mini-projects across the curriculum — Q&A bots, resume screeners, SQL helpers, and more.
⚡ Seats filling fast — only 6 remaining across all batches
| Batch Type | Schedule | Duration | Next Start Date | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weekend | Sat & Sun, 10am–1pm | 10 weeks | 8 Aug 2026 | Available |
| Weekday | Mon–Fri, 7–9pm | 8 weeks | 10 Aug 2026 | Available |
| Fast-track | Mon–Sun, 6 hours/day | 2 weeks | 17 Aug 2026 | Available |
The course covers Amazon RDS (all engines), Aurora, Aurora Serverless, DynamoDB, ElastiCache (Redis and Memcached), Neptune, Timestream, DocumentDB, Keyspaces, QLDB, MemoryDB for Redis, and the Database Migration Service.
Basic SQL knowledge (SELECT, JOIN, INDEX) is helpful for the relational database modules, but you do not need to be a DBA. NoSQL concepts are taught from the ground up.
The exam contains 65 questions (multiple choice and multiple response) across five domains: Workload-Specific Database Design, Deployment and Migration, Management and Operations, Monitoring and Troubleshooting, and Database Security. Passing score is 750 out of 1000.
Yes. On-demand vs provisioned capacity, auto-scaling, adaptive capacity, hot partition identification, and DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) for microsecond caching are all covered with hands-on labs.
AWS Database Migration Service (DMS), AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT), native database backup/restore, and S3 data import techniques are all covered with end-to-end migration labs.
Database Administrators, Data Architects, Backend Engineers who design data layers, and Cloud Architects specifying data storage strategies all benefit significantly from the AWS Database Specialty certification.
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