Cloud and Big Data work hand-in-hand.

Gayatri Gupta
Sep 7, 2018 · 3 min read

These two are rising and ruling technologies offering extensive ease of access to intricate workloads.

Big data is voluminous, large sets of data where as Cloud is a solution to rig this large data. Their fellowship is resulting in appreciable acquisition by the industry.

Both the technologies are in emerging instant but their results are considerably remarkable, their combination leverages cost- effective and scalable solution in Big Data Analytics.

Big Data and Cloud Computing Relationship

Separately, these technologies offer easing and handy solutions, which make the problems appear to be as a point — to give it a thought not as a hurdle to accomplish the goal. Because of this, many businesses are looking forward to combine these two to reap more benefit out of it.

Let’s start with basic idea, what these technologies are!

Big Data and Cloud Computing

Big data is a term that describes the large volume of data – both structured and unstructured – that inundates a business on a day-to-day basis. There are five aspects of Big Data which are described through 5Vs:

  • Volume – the amount of data
  • Variety – different types of data
  • Velocity – data flow rate in the system
  • Value – the value of data based on the information contained within
  • Veracity – data confidentiality and availability

Cloud computing is a metaphor for Internet. It provides solution to every hurdle in the form of services it offers on the basis of pay-as-you-go model.

  • Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas)

Here the service provider offers the entire infrastructure along with the maintenance.

  • Platform as a Service (PaaS)

There the user gets the platform to setup their infrastructure on accordance to their requirements.

  • Software as a Service (SaaS)

The user just have to install the softwares /packages to work upon, rest of the work is already been done by the provider.

*Cloud Computing and Big data relationship model given below:

This picture depicts the cloud computing role for big data:

  • IaaS in public cloud:
  1. Cost-effective solution
  2. Enable people to access unlimited storage and computer facilities.
  • PaaS in Private Cloud:
  1. PaaS vendors add Big Data technologies in their offered service.
  • SaaS in hybrid Cloud:
  1. Provides excellent platform for analysis purposes.

Benefits of Big Data in Cloud

There are multiple benefits of Big Data in Cloud Computing . Big Data requirement is same where distributed processing of massive data is abstracted from the end users.

  • Improved Analysis
  • Simplified Infrastructure
  • Lowering the cost
  • Security and Privacy

From the above description it’s obvious that there is assured involvement of Big Data in Cloud and if a candidate have ample knowledge about how the technologies relatable then it could open up some more opportunities to secure a place in industry like Big Data Solutions Architect etc.

Learning Big data and Cloud computing together comes under specialty course as the two technologies are based on different architectures. Moreover, these specialty courses are only provided by the Cloud service top providers –

  • Amazon (AWS)
  • Google (GCP)
  • Microsoft (Azure)

Popular and well-known certifications of these providers cover these:

And the Big Data certifications involves :

Every course has specific time-lapse to achieve a well-known certification along with handsome registration amount.

Conclusion

No doubt, Big Data and Cloud Computing is a great combination to improve enterprise capabilities. Though some challenges are there like data storage capabilities, etc. but in front of benefits these are negligible. Hence, we can conclude that Big Data and Cloud work hand-in-hand.

Although a single article may not be enough to justify but as you learn and explore you’ll find more points by yourself.

Reference: Whizlabs

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