云计算：云计算是一种将远程服务器网络托管在 Internet 上的技术。这些服务器主要存储数据、管理数据和处理数据。但这不是由本地服务器或个人计算机完成的。
简而言之，这里的数据是在互联网上收集的。因此，无需使用物理服务器。
云计算不依赖任何数据分析。
数据分析：数据分析被定义为检查、清理、转换和建模数据的过程。数据分析的主要目的是发现有用的信息。从而得出进一步有助于公司决策过程的结论。
在数据分析中，数据是从大数据源中测量和估计的。
数据存储在云上完成，数据分析涉及数据的提取。因此，数据分析依赖云计算进行数据提取。
下表列出了云计算和数据分析之间的差异：
| S.No. | Cloud Computing | Data Analytics |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Data storage and retrieval from whichever place at whatever time. | A process where data is inspected, cleaned, transformed and modelled |
| 2 | Is independent of data analytics | Is dependent on cloud computing. |
| 3 | Has solutions to data intensive computing and doesn’t focus on a particular organization. | Works on the improvement of a particular organization |
| 4 | Involves SaaS (Software as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service), IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) | Involves python, Sas, Apache Spark, etc. |
| 5 | Is further categorized as public cloud, private cloud, community cloud and hybrid cloud. | Big Data Technology is Hadoop, MapReduce, and HDFS are important aspects |
| 6 | Cloud Computing providers are Google, Amazon Web Service, Microsoft, Dell, Apple, IBM. | Data Analytics providers are Cloudera, Hortonworks, Apache and MapR. |
| 7 | Less Costly | Costlier |
| 8 | Roles related to cloud computing are cloud resource administrator, cloud service provider, cloud consumer, cloud auditor, etc | Roles related to data analytics are data developer, data administrator, data analyst, data scientist, etc. |