Cloud analytics is a marketing term for businesses to carry out analysis using
cloud computing
Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage ( cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. Large clouds often have functions distributed over m ...
. It uses a range of analytical tools and techniques to help companies extract information from massive data and present it in a way that is easily categorised and readily available via a web browser.
Cloud analytics is term for a set of technological and analytical tools and techniques specifically designed to help clients extract information from massive
data
In the pursuit of knowledge, data (; ) is a collection of discrete values that convey information, describing quantity, quality, fact, statistics, other basic units of meaning, or simply sequences of symbols that may be further interpret ...
.
Cloud analytics is designed to make official
statistical
Statistics (from German: '' Statistik'', "description of a state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a scientific, industr ...
data readily categorized and available via the users
web browser
A web browser is application software for accessing websites. When a user requests a web page from a particular website, the browser retrieves its files from a web server and then displays the page on the user's screen. Browsers are used on ...
.
Cloud analytics tools
AWS Analytics products:
Amazon Athena runs interactive queries directly against data in
Amazon S3
Amazon S3 or Amazon Simple Storage Service is a service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that provides object storage through a web service interface. Amazon S3 uses the same scalable storage infrastructure that Amazon.com uses to run its ...
.
Amazon EMR deploys open source, big data frameworks like Apache Hadoop, Spark, Presto, HBase, and Flink.
Amazon Redshift
Amazon Redshift is a data warehouse product which forms part of the larger cloud-computing platform Amazon Web Services. It is built on top of technology from the massive parallel processing (MPP) data warehouse company ParAccel (later acquire ...
fully manages petabyte-scale data warehouse to run complex queries on collections of structured data.
Google Cloud Analytics Products:
Google BigQuery Google's fully manages low cost analytics data warehouse.
Google Cloud Dataflow
Google Cloud Dataflow is a fully managed service for executing Apache Beam pipelines within the Google Cloud Platform ecosystem.
History
Google Cloud Dataflow was announced in June, 2014 and released to the general public as an open beta in Apr ...
unifies programming models and manages services for executing a range of data processing patterns including streaming analytics, ETL, and batch computation.
Google Cloud Dataproc manages Spark and Hadoop service, to process big datasets using the open tools in the Apache big data ecosystem.
Google Cloud Composer
Google LLC () is an American multinational technology company focusing on search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and consumer electro ...
fully manages workflow orchestration service to author, schedule, and monitor pipelines that span across clouds and on-premises data centers.
Google Cloud Datalab is an interactive notebook (based on Jupyter) to explore, collaborate, analyze and visualize data.
Google Data Studio
Looker Studio, formerly Google Data Studio, is an online tool for converting data into customizable informative reports and dashboards introduced by Google on March 15, 2016 as part of the enterprise Google Analytics 360 suite. In May 2016, Google ...
turns data into dashboards and reports that can be read, shared, and customized.
Google Cloud Dataprep is a data service for visually exploring, cleaning, and preparing structured and
unstructured data
Unstructured data (or unstructured information) is information that either does not have a pre-defined data model or is not organized in a pre-defined manner. Unstructured information is typically text-heavy, but may contain data such as dates, n ...
for analysis.
Google Cloud Pub/Sub
Google LLC () is an American multinational technology company focusing on search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and consumer electronics. ...
is a serverless, large-scale, real-time messaging service that allows you to send and receive messages between independent applications.
Related Azure services and Microsoft products:
HDInsight provisions cloud Hadoop, Spark, R Server, HBase, and Storm clusters.
Data Lake Analytics
In the pursuit of knowledge, data (; ) is a collection of discrete values that convey information, describing quantity, quality, fact, statistics, other basic units of meaning, or simply sequences of symbols that may be further interpreted. ...
distributes analytics service that makes big data easy.
Machine Learning Studio
A machine is a physical system using power to apply forces and control movement to perform an action. The term is commonly applied to artificial devices, such as those employing engines or motors, but also to natural biological macromolecule ...
easily builds, deploys, and manages
predictive analytics
Predictive analytics encompasses a variety of statistical techniques from data mining, predictive modeling, and machine learning that analyze current and historical facts to make predictions about future or otherwise unknown events.
In busin ...
solutions.
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