Part 3 explains how to bring the tools and techniques we’ve covered throughout this book into the cloud. We’ll cover the fundamentals of cloud computing, object storage in the cloud, and how to set up your own computing clusters in the cloud. Through hands-on examples, we’ll run the distributed computing frameworks covered in Part 2—Hadoop and Spark—in the cloud. This part focuses on large data category 3: data that is too big for either storing or processing locally. Once you’ve mastered the content in this chapter, you’ll be able to tackle data of any size.