Cloud Platforms (Amazon Web Services)
Cloud platforms are large-scale infrastructures and services provided by companies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. They allow organizations to store, process, and analyze big data with pay-as-you-go pricing and virtually unlimited capacity.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) • Overview: AWS is the market leader in cloud computing and provides a wide range of big data services.
• Key Services: o Amazon S3 – object storage for massive datasets. o Amazon Redshift – cloud data warehouse optimized for big data analytics. o Amazon EMR – managed Hadoop/Spark clusters for large-scale data processing. o SageMaker – machine learning service to build, train, and deploy models.
• Strengths: Scalability, wide global availability, large ecosystem of tools.