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Cloud Analytics with Google Cloud Platform

By : Sanket Thodge
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Cloud Analytics with Google Cloud Platform

By: Sanket Thodge

Overview of this book

With the ongoing data explosion, more and more organizations all over the world are slowly migrating their infrastructure to the cloud. These cloud platforms also provide their distinct analytics services to help you get faster insights from your data. This book will give you an introduction to the concept of analytics on the cloud, and the different cloud services popularly used for processing and analyzing data. If you’re planning to adopt the cloud analytics model for your business, this book will help you understand the design and business considerations to be kept in mind, and choose the best tools and alternatives for analytics, based on your requirements. The chapters in this book will take you through the 70+ services available in Google Cloud Platform and their implementation for practical purposes. From ingestion to processing your data, this book contains best practices on building an end-to-end analytics pipeline on the cloud by leveraging popular concepts such as machine learning and deep learning. By the end of this book, you will have a better understanding of cloud analytics as a concept as well as a practical know-how of its implementation
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Amazon Web Services


We will now have a look at the primary services that AWS provides.

Compute

I am now going to explain the different services in the Compute category offered by AWS:

  • AWS EC2: Secure and resizable virtual machines on the cloud
  • AWS EC2 Auto Scaling: Updates compute capacity as per the requirement
  • Amazon Elastic Container Service: Assists in running containerized applications on cloud
  • AWS Lambda: Runs code without any infrastructure concerns you pay for compute only
  • Elastic Load Balancing: Achieves scalability, performance, and security to make an application fault-tolerant

Storage

I am now going to explain the different services in the Storage category offered by AWS:

  • Amazon S3: Object storage on the cloud with global reach
  • Amazon EBS: Provides persistent block storage for virtual machines in EC2
  • Amazon EFS: File storage on AWS—simple, scalable, and reliable
  • Amazon Glacier: Archives your data for long-term, secure, and durable features
  • AWS Storage Gateway: Seamless local integration to...