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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

Google Compute Engine


Google Compute Engine is the service in GCP that helps us in provisioning virtual machines as per our requirements; we have the option to customize it and run it as long as we want, while getting amazing discounts for running it for a longer duration. While creating a VM, you have the option of creating a Linux instance; at the same time, you can create a Windows instance as well.

Compute Engine offers scale, performance, and value, allowing you to easily launch large compute clusters on Google's infrastructure. Plus you don't have any upfront investments, and you can run thousands of virtual CPUs on a system that has been designed to be fast and offer strong consistency of performance.

You can create your own VPC and provision a custom VM. Due to this characteristic of Compute Engine, users can host the same logic in the cloud as is currently hosted on  the physical infrastructure and on virtual machines provided by Google.

We can create virtual machine instances in the...