Week 10 Worklog

Week 10 Objectives:

  • Connect and get acquainted with members of First Cloud Journey.
  • Understand basic AWS services, how to use the console & CLI.

Tasks to be carried out this week:

DayTaskStart DateCompletion DateReference Material
2- LMR: Build and Deploy a Global Serverless Application with Amazon DynamoDB
Practice:
  + Module 1: Deploy the backend resources
  + Module 2: Explore Global Tables
  + Module 3: Interact with the Globalflix Interface
- Global Tables Discussion Topics
- LEDA: Build a Serverless Event Driven Architecture with DynamoDB
- Practice:
  + Lab 1: Connect the pipeline
  + Lab 2: Ensure fault tolerance and exactly once processing
  + Cleanup resource
11/10/202511/10/2025https://000039.awsstudygroup.com/
3- LGME: Modeling Game Player Data with Amazon DynamoDB
- Practice:
  + Plan data model
  + Core usage: user profiles and games
  + Find open games
  + Join and close games
  + View past games
  + Summary & Cleanup
- LDC: Design Challenges
11/11/202511/11/2025https://000039.awsstudygroup.com/
4- Cost and performance analysis with AWS Glue and Amazon Athena
- Practice:
  + Preparing the database
  + Building a database
  + Database Check
  + Data in the Table
  + Cost
  + Tagging and Cost Allocation
  + Usage
  + Cleanup resource
11/12/202511/12/2025https://000040.awsstudygroup.com/
5- Work with Amazon DynamoDB
- Practice:
  + Manage using AWS Management Console
  + Use AWS CloudShell
  + Configure AWS CLI
  + Getting started with Python and DynamoDB
- Clean up resource
11/13/202511/13/2025https://000060.awsstudygroup.com/
6- Building a Datalake with Your Data
- Practice:
  + Preparing Data
  + Data Ingestion with AWS Glue
  + Query with Athena
  + Visualization with QuickSight
  + Resource Cleanup
11/14/202511/14/2025https://000070.awsstudygroup.com/

Week 10 Achievements:

  • Successfully built and deployed a global serverless application using DynamoDB Global Tables, gaining hands-on experience with multi-Region architecture and event-driven pipelines with fault tolerance and exactly-once processing.

  • Strengthened DynamoDB data-modeling skills through game player data modeling, covering user profiles, game sessions, open/closed games, and historical queries.

  • Gained deeper experience with AWS Glue & Athena by performing database preparation, ETL operations, querying, cost analysis, tagging, and cost allocation for analytics workloads.

  • Improved DynamoDB operational skills using Management Console, CloudShell, AWS CLI, and Python SDK (boto3).

  • Built a full data lake pipeline end-to-end: data preparation, Glue ingestion, Athena query optimization, and QuickSight visualization.