C S 55B - DATABASE ESSENTIALS IN AMAZON WEB SERVICES

    Recent Professors
    ROBERT SANDOR
    Recent Semesters
    Spring 2027, Spring 2026
    Class Size
    15–25 students
    Difficulty
    5.1Moderateout of 10
    Credits
    4.5
    Spring 2027 Sections
    View Spring 2027 sections of C S 55B
    Transfers To
    CSU
    Description
    This course addresses database fundamentals and cloud database design patterns and management. A wide variety of database needs are presented, such as structured, semi-structured, and unstructured datasets, and how those are supported in the cloud. Students learn to deploy a SQL database on infrastructure components and perform basic data operations on that infrastructure. Students then take those basic concepts and learn managed platform as a service solutions, such as Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Kinesis stream processing/analytics, in memory database accelerators, and ML big data tools. Basic database administration skills, such as migration, backups, restoration, retention, service configuration, high availability, and service scaling, are presented.
    Usually Held
    Tue 6:00pm–9:50pm