Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
—Rabindranath Tagore
In the real world, deployments of Big Data systems fit into a larger ecosystem that consists of managed cloud instances, cluster managers, data stores and warehouses, and so on. Cloud deployments enable organizations to pass the buck of DevOps to the cloud service provider and thus free them to focus on application development and business operations. Along with economies of scale, this provides on-demand horizontal elasticity and simplified scheduling. Similar to other ...
