Data analytics: from raw data to decision
Data lakes, ETL pipelines and BI dashboards on sovereign infrastructure – with unlimited storage and computing power on demand. Your data deserves a robust infrastructure: analyse, visualise and scale your business intelligence and analytics workloads flexibly in the cloud – whether data science, dashboarding or real-time analysis, with ccloud³ VMs, Kubernetes and GPU options.
- Scalable infrastructure for big data – cloud resources that grow with your analytics processes, whether event streaming or data-intensive workloads.
- Enterprise-grade security – encryption, firewalls and managed firewall protect business intelligence applications, GDPR-compliant.
- Optimised for BI tools and analytics workloads – Tableau, Looker, Power BI or your own ETL processes on high-performance VMs with scalable object storage.
- Predictable cloud costs – clearly structured plans, full transparency, no hidden fees.
The layers of your analytics stack
Good analytics require three things: unlimited storage, scalable computing power and robust data protection.
Data Lake in S3
Raw data, events and exports are stored in S3 Object Storage – which offers unlimited scalability and can be accessed from any tool via the S3 API.
Fast databases
ClickHouse, PostgreSQL or Elasticsearch run on NVMe volumes with the IOPS required for analytical queries.
Compute by job size
ETL jobs and aggregations scale in Kubernetes – large night-time runs are assigned large nodes, whilst the cluster shrinks during the day.
Analyses relating to compliance
Personal data is stored in German, C5-certified data centres – your analyses will pass any data protection audit.
Hosting for analytics tools and big data workloads
Whether event streaming, machine learning or classic business intelligence: data analytics applications run on a powerful, scalable cloud infrastructure with full control – as managed hosting on request, to reduce the IT burden.
Cost-efficient streaming and analysis pipelines
GPU cloud servers or ccloud³ VMs for real-time data streaming – ideal for dashboards, IoT or log analysis. Automated, scalable pipelines help you make data-based decisions faster – details on data streaming.
Optimised object storage for your data volumes
Store and analyse large volumes of data efficiently with S3 Object Storage – reduce loading times, improve application performance and cut bandwidth costs, because traffic is free.
Set up and manage databases with ease
Set up powerful database clusters in a few clicks – fully integrated into your DevOps environment. The platform supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis and more and can be controlled automatically via web interface or the Kubernetes API – more on database hosting.
Hosting event streaming services
With managed servers and ccloud³ VMs you can run Apache Kafka or other event streaming tools with ease. The infrastructure is optimised for high latency sensitivity and continuous data flow.
Your analytics stack, chosen by you
Airflow orchestrates, dbt transforms, Metabase or Grafana visualises – all self-hosted on your infrastructure, connected within a single VPC. No vendor lock-in, no data sharing, full cost transparency.
- Data Lake – S3 as the central raw data layer
- ETL & Orchestration – Airflow, dbt & Co. in Kubernetes
- BI front-ends – Metabase, Grafana, Superset
- Data Protection – all in Germany
- 99.8% uptime SLA for ccloud³ VMs in the HA Pool – reliably hosted in German data centres
- Free VPC traffic – excess data transfers cost just €0.001 per GB
The right centron products
Customers typically implement this use case using these building blocks – which can be combined and expanded at any time.
- S3-compatible API
- Free traffic
- Unlimited scalability
- AutoScaler included
- Traffic at a fixed price
- CI/CD-ready
- Can be expanded whilst in operation
- Snapshot-compatible
- Independent of the VM
Which cloud infrastructure is best suited to data analytics?
Cloud for data analytics: data pipelines, data warehouses and BI tools on scalable infrastructure – data storage in Germany. The cornerstone of the service is S3 Object Storage from €5.00 per month – billed by the hour, with no minimum contract term. This is supplemented as required by Kubernetes and volumes. The service is operated exclusively in our own data centres in Germany – certified to ISO 27001 on the basis of IT-Grundschutz, with an unrestricted BSI C5:2020 Type 1 certificate. New accounts receive a €200 starting credit.
| Building block | Price |
|---|---|
| S3 Object Storage | from €5.00 per month |
| Kubernetes | from €29.99 per month |
| Volumes | from €0.05 per month |
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