An overview of
providers
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Overview
How this chapter should be understood:
overview of main cloud providers
overview of their market position
overview of their respective key services
overview of their strengths
examples of customers
case study
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Overview
How this chapter should be understood:
overview of main cloud providers
overview of their market position
overview of their respective key services
overview of their strengths
examples of customers
case study
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The players
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Market share
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Market share
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The rise of cloud computing
Cloud computing services vital for modern
companies
IaaS and PaaS offer significant benefits
Enable agility, efficiency, innovation
Reduce costs, focus on core business
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Making a choice
Best cloud provider meets company needs
Leverage cloud specialists' knowledge
Contact providers directly
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Making a choice
Consider current infrastructure and data
center costs
Evaluate costs for managing hardware and
storage
Assess costs for app depreciation,
migration, or rebuild for cloud
Consider hiring cloud specialists, benefits
to company and customers, and potential
cloud migration risks
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Amazon Web
Services
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AWS and the market
AWS launched in 2006 (Google Cloud in
2008, Microsoft Azure in 2010)
Breadth of services:
Computing
Storage
Analytics
Security and enterprise applications
Machine learning
Market share: 31%
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AWS professional cloud services
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AWS professional cloud services
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AWS professional cloud services
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AWS professional data services
Redshift (analytics - data warehousing)
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AWS professional data services
Redshift (analytics - data warehousing)
Kinesis (real time data movement and analytics)
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AWS professional data services
Redshift (analytics - data warehousing)
Kinesis (real time data movement and analytics)
SageMaker (predictive analytics and machine learning)
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AWS customers
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AWS case study
Company: NerdWallet
Problem: Takes too long to deploy machine
learning models
Solution:
Amazon Sagemaker (cloud machine
learning platform gathering machine
learning processes)
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AWS case study
Improvements:
Reduce training times to days
Reduce training costs by 75%
Modernized data science engineering
practices
1 https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/
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Microsoft Azure
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Azure and the market
Integration with Microsoft products
Benefits from customer loyalty, top-of-mind
choice
Market share: 24%
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Azure cloud services
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Azure cloud services
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Azure cloud services
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Microsoft Fabric
Integrates various Microsoft solutions for
enterprise use
Covers data movement, data science, real-
time analytics, business intelligence
A key service offering by Microsoft
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Azure data services
Data Lake Storage (store data before
cleaning)
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Azure data services
Data Lake Storage (store data before
cleaning)
Stream Analytics (real-time analytics)
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Azure data services
Data Lake Storage (store data before
cleaning)
Stream Analytics (real-time analytics)
Machine Learning (train and deploy
machine learning models)
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Azure customers
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Azure case study
Organization: Ottawa Hospital
Needs: Cost-effective and secure disaster
recovery solution (continue vital operations
after a disaster)
Solution:
Microsoft IaaS (secure, scalable
environment)
Azure Storage (medical imaging data)
Azure Site Recovery (automatically deploy
recovery processes)
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Azure case study
Improvements:
New secure, up-to-date, policy compliant
disaster recovery site
Compliant with data privacy regulations
Saved ~50% on disaster recovery costs
1 https://customers.microsoft.com/
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Google Cloud
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Google Cloud and the market
Google Cloud Anthos
Run hybrid multi-cloud solutions:
manage and deploy across several cloud
providers
Market share: 11%
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Google Cloud services
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Google Cloud services
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Google Cloud services
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Google Cloud data services
Big Query (data warehouse)
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Google Cloud data services
Big Query (data warehouse)
Dataflow (batch and stream data
processing)
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Google Cloud data services
Big Query (data warehouse)
Dataflow (batch and stream data
processing)
AutoML (machine learning model training
and development)
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Google Cloud customers
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Google Cloud case study
Organization: Lush
Needs: Improve e-commerce platform
availability and stability during peak loads
Solution:
Migrate entire global infra to Google Cloud
Google Cloud Compute Engine (quickly test
and provision environments during
migration)
Customer and product data on Google
Cloud SQL
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Google Cloud case study
Improvements:
No outage during Boxing Day
40% reduction in hosting costs
Later deployed an image recognition app
to provide information on their product and
reduce plastic packaging on Google Cloud
AI platform
1 https://cloud.google.com/customers/lush/
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Iason Prassides
Content Developer, DataCamp
Chapter 1 - Introduction to cloud computing
How cloud computing works
Why it is powerful
Main service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
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Chapter 2 - Cloud strategies
Deployment models (private, public, and hybrid)
Regulations
Cloud roles
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Chapter 3 - The cloud infrastructure market
Market's major players
Their offerings
Their customers
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Next steps
Explore further to find the right service for you
Talk with cloud expert
Explore the cloud provider websites
Get in touch with cloud providers
DataCamp's cloud-focused courses
Introduction to Azure
Introduction to AWS
Introduction to GCP
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