Introduction

The existing solutions for solving distributed analytics and AI problems on Cloud have major challenges on a combination of various aspects including cost, performance, complexity and openness. CloudTik is developed for solving these challenges.

CloudTik is a cloud scale platform for distributed analytics and AI on public cloud providers including AWS, Azure, GCP, and so on. CloudTik enables users or enterprises to easily create and manage analytics and AI platform on public clouds, with out-of-box optimized functionalities and performance, and to go quickly to focus on running the business workloads in minutes or hours instead of spending months to construct and optimize the platform. We target to:

• Support major public Cloud providers (AWS, Azure and GCP, …)

• Out of box and optimized runtime for Analytics and AI (Spark , …)

• Easy and unified operation experiences across all Clouds

• Open architecture and user full control

• A full open-sourced solution

CloudTik offers the industry an open-sourced solution for users to build and run the production level analytics and AI platform on Cloud in hours. CloudTik provides a powerful, but easy to use infrastructure to build and manage ready to use distributed analytics and AI runtimes on Cloud which is not possible for individual or small businesses in the past. It enables the users be their own SaaS provider on Cloud.