584 Large Scale and Big Data
own applications and software stack. The customers have full control over operating
systems, storage, deployed applications, and possibly limited control of selecting
networking components (e.g., host rewalls). An example of IaaS is Amazon EC2
[2]. EC2 provides users with access to virtual machines (VM) running on its servers.
Customers can install any operating system and can run any application in that VM.
19.2.2 big Data
With the advance of data storage and processing infrastructure, it is now possible to
store and analyze huge amounts of data. This has ushered the age of Big Data, where
large-scale and high-volume collections of data objects require complex data collec-
tion, processing, analysis, and storage ...