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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

Available deployment models while moving to cloud


We have three available deployment models while deploying to the cloud:

  • The Infrastructure as a Service or the IaaS model
  • The Platform as a Service or the PaaS model
  • The Software as a Service or the SaaS model

We will be discussing the advantages and disadvantages of these deployment models in detail, in the following sections.

IaaS

IaaS enables the cloud provider to openly find an IT infrastructure over the web in a financially savvy way. Following image will help you to understand IaaS Architecture.

Advantages of IaaS

A portion of the key advantages of IaaS are as per the following:

  • Full control of the computing assets through authoritative access to VMs: You can issue authoritative order to a cloud provider to run the virtual machine or to persist data on a cloud server. You can issue authoritative command to virtual machines that you possess to start the web server or to provision new applications. These are simply a couple of cases of managerial...