Cloud-based data warehouses take advantage of the core benefits associated with on-demand computing including far-reaching user access, seemingly limitless storage, and increased computational capacity, as well as the ability to scale while paying only for what is used. Popular cloud-based data warehouses are Amazon Redshift, Microsoft Azure, and SnowflakeDB. When your data warehouse is in the cloud, data integration tools play a critical role in turning your data into useful, actionable information. Traditional extract, transform, and load tools cannot scale to move shifting amounts of Big Data to a cloud data warehouse