Moving to the cloud
In the last decade, the adoption of the cloud by vendors and businesses alike has created a new market in data warehousing. Cloud vendors shook the data warehousing status quo due to their massive infrastructure and market advantage. It looks like the cloud data warehouse (CDWH) is here to stay.
This section aims to enhance your understanding of CDWHs. By the end of this discussion, you should understand why companies choose CDWHs over on-premises solutions, which components the CDWH consists of, and the different kinds of cloud data warehouse users.
Over the past few years, many organizations with a data warehouse have migrated to the cloud. One of the biggest reasons is cost. Traditionally, a company wanting a data warehouse would need to host it itself. This meant buying and maintaining expensive hardware, as well as paying a vendor for an annual software license. Migrations between data warehouses were difficult and preferably avoided. If the company did...
