Cloud analytics explained

Cloud analytics is a marketing term for businesses to carry out analysis using cloud computing. 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.^[1]

Cloud analytics is term for a set of technological and analytical tools and techniques specifically designed to help clients extract information from massive data.^[2]

Cloud analytics is designed to make official statistical data readily categorized and available via the users web browser.

The global Cloud Analytics Market size is expected to grow from USD 35.7 billion in 2024 to USD 118.5 billion in 2029, at a CAGR of 27.1% during the forecast period, according to a new report by MarketsandMarkets™.^[3]

Cloud analytics tools

AWS Analytics products:

• Amazon Athena runs interactive queries directly against data in Amazon S3.^[4]
• Amazon EMR deploys open source, big data frameworks like Apache Hadoop, Spark, Presto, HBase, and Flink.
• Amazon Redshift fully manages petabyte-scale data warehouse to run complex queries on collections of structured data.^[5]

Google Cloud Analytics Products:

• Google BigQuery Google's fully manages low cost analytics data warehouse.
• Google Cloud Dataflow 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 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.
• Looker Studio 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 for analysis.
• Google Cloud Pub/Sub is a serverless, large-scale, real-time messaging service that allows you to send and receive messages between independent applications.^[6]

Related Azure services and Microsoft products:

• HDInsight provisions cloud Hadoop, Spark, R Server, HBase, and Storm clusters.
• Data Lake Analytics distributes analytics service that makes big data easy.
• Machine Learning Studio easily builds, deploys, and manages predictive analytics solutions.^[7]

Notes and References

1. https://www.webhosting.uk.com/blog/the-innovative-productivity-of-cloud-analytics/ What is Cloud Analytics?
2. Web site: Cloud Analytics | Booz Allen Hamilton . 2014-07-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140812042125/http://www.boozallen.com/consulting/technology/cloud-computing/cloud-analytics . 2014-08-12 . dead .
3. https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2024/06/05/2893965/0/en/The-Rise-of-Cloud-Analytics-Market-A-118-5-billion-Industry-Dominated-by-Tech-Giants-IBM-SAS-Institute-Oracle-Google-MarketsandMarkets.html/ Cloud Analytics Market
4. Web site: Query your CloudTrail like a pro with Athena. Spira. Elliott. 19 August 2019. GorillaStack.
5. Web site: Data Lakes and Analytics on AWS - Amazon Web Services.
6. Web site: Data Analytics Solutions.
7. Web site: Cloud-Scale Analytics | Microsoft Azure.