Cloud IoT is a set of fully managed and integrated services that allows organizations to easily and securely connect, manage, and collect data from devices across the globe at a large scale. Knowing this, what stage of big data processing does Cloud IoT belong in?

Cloud IoT belongs in the ingest stage because it focuses on connecting devices and collecting device data at scale. In a connected-device architecture, device telemetry is brought into Google Cloud before it can be processed, stored, or analyzed. Pub/Sub commonly acts as the ingestion layer for streaming device events into downstream services. This makes Cloud IoT part of the data collection and entry point of the big data processing model.