Uses a learning-by-doing approach to understand key concepts behind Cloud Computing and Big Data , the strategic drivers of these technologies and the value propositions that they provide to industry. The course cover technologies within this ecosystem including Hadoop, AWS, Pig, Hive, Amazon Web Services and Spark. The focus is on creating awareness of the technologies, providing some level of familiarity with them through hands-on exercises and projects, and enabling strategic thinking around the use of these technologies in business.