This document discusses cloud computing and big data in three main areas:
1) Why companies are moving to cloud-based platforms for infrastructure agility, cost savings, and to handle large volumes of structured and unstructured data.
2) How the growth of IoT devices is driving more data and analytics workloads to the cloud.
3) Different cloud deployment options for data lakes including IaaS, PaaS, and analytics as a service and considerations for assessing cloud data providers.
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