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Google Cloud Skills Boost

Apply your skills in Google Cloud console

Erik Najera

Member since 2020

Alexa Skills Development Earned May 31, 2020 EDT
Advanced Operations Using Amazon Redshift Earned May 30, 2020 EDT
Digital Media Earned May 30, 2020 EDT
Big Data on AWS Earned May 30, 2020 EDT
Serverless Web Apps using Amazon DynamoDB Earned May 9, 2020 EDT
Databases on AWS for Windows Earned May 9, 2020 EDT
Security on AWS Earned May 8, 2020 EDT
Programming Windows on AWS Earned May 8, 2020 EDT
Serverless Design with AWS Lambda Earned May 6, 2020 EDT

In this Quest, you will learn how to create Alexa skills that respond to voice commands and which can be used on the Amazon Echo, Dot, and Tap devices. You will create back-end functions in AWS Lambda, and then connect them with voice response logic using the Alexa Skills Kit. You will use both the AWS Console and the Amazon Developer Portal in these labs, the latter requiring you to have or create a no-cost, no-credit-card-required account. No hardware device is required for any lab; an Alexa voice response simulation system is provided in the Amazon Developer Portal. Templates used in these labs can be adapted and extended to create your own Alexa skills and offer them to the worldwide Alexa user community.

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In this Quest, you will delve deeper into the uses and capabilities of Amazon Redshift. You will use a remote SQL client to create and configure tables, and gain practice loading large data sets into Redshift. You will explore the effects of schema variations and compression. You will explore visualization of Redshift data, and connect Redshift with Amazon Machine Learning to create a predictive data model.

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AWS provides a set of on-demand storage, archive, transcoding, and streaming services for businesses that are running photo, video, and file storage applications in the cloud. In this quest, you’ll learn to work with advanced services for digital media on AWS.

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Scientists, developers, and other technologists from many different industries are taking advantage of AWS to perform big data analytics and meet the challenges of the increasing volume, variety, and velocity of digital information. AWS offers a portfolio of cloud computing services to help you manage big data by reducing costs, scaling to meet demand, and increasing the speed of innovation. In this quest, you’ll learn to work with advanced services for Big Data.

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Serverless architectures allow you to build and run applications and services without needing to provision, manage, and scale infrastructure. This quest will show how to design, build, and deploy interactive serverless web applications, using a simple HTML/JavaScript web interface which uses Amazon API Gateway calls to send requests to AWS Lambda backends that query Amazon DynamoDB data.

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Learn how to deploy and administer databases running on Microsoft Windows Server in Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS.

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This quest is designed to teach you how to apply AWS Identity and Access Management, in concert with several other AWS Services, to address real-world application and service security management scenarios.

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Learn how to develop applications in Microsoft Visual Studio leveraging AWS services.

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In this Quest, you will learn how to write functions with the AWS Lambda Service that respond to events and integrate other AWS Services. You will create applications that write records to Amazon DynamoDB, send messages with Amazon SNS, and monitor events in Amazon CloudWatch and external services. You will even write a back-end function in Lambda for creating a voice-response app for Alexa and the Amazon Echo.

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