This paper is to compare the cloud computing services provided by Cloudera, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.

Big data is about large volume data and contain structured, semi-structured and unstructured data. As a result, big data is not able to be stored and processed by conventional technologies. Then, the Hadoop framework enables the storage and process of such complex data.

Cloudera, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure deployed the Hadoop framework and enable data storage and process on the cloud. All three distributions also provide cloud computing, cloud storage, databases and Machine Learning. They all have their own strength and weakness in different aspects.

So, users have to choose the distribution that best fit their requirements.

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