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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

Microsoft Azure


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

Compute

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

  • Virtual machines: Helps you to provide Linux and Windows virtual machines instantly
  • Functions: Builds your code and submits it to Azure to let it run as serverless code
  • Linux virtual machines: Virtual machines on cloud providing Ubuntu, RHEL, and CentoOS variants
  • SAP HANA on Azure large instances: Deploys SAP HANA workload at a great scale
  • Windows virtual machine: Virtual machines on cloud providing Windows, SQL Server, SharePoint, and so on

Networking

I am now going to explain the different services in the Networking category offered by Azure:

  • Content delivery network: Makes sure content is delivered efficiently and reliably
  • Azure DNS: DNS service by Azure
  • VPN Gateway: To establish secure and inter-premise connections
  • Load balancer: Used to make an application highly available in the case of any network outage
  • Virtual network...