This document discusses building a smart bar using cloud services. It describes a demo of a Raspberry Pi camera recognizing beer bottles and sending commands to the cloud to serve beer. It discusses challenges of IoT like security, privacy, and data volume that cloud solutions can address by managing thousands of devices, providing computation and storage, and deploying services quickly. The architecture shown uses edge devices like a Raspberry Pi for local processing and privacy, with data and insights sent to the cloud. Options for AWS and Azure cloud platforms are compared.