Simplified cloud instance selection
Abstract
Cloud computing delivers computational services to anyone over the internet. The cloud providers offer these services through a simplified billing model where customers can rent services based on the types of computing power they require. However, given the vast choice, it is complicated for a user to select the optimal instance types for a given workload or application. In this paper, we propose a user-friendly cloud instance recommendation system, which given a set of weighted coefficients representing the relevance of CPU, memory, storage and network along with a price, will recommend the best performing instances. The system only requires provider specified data about instance types and doesn’t require costly cloud benchmarking. We evaluate our approach on Microsoft Azure across a number of different common workload types.
Citation
Boonprasop , C & Barker , A D 2018 , Simplified cloud instance selection . in Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on CrossCloud Infrastructures & Platforms (CrossCloud'18) . , 5 , ACM , New York, NY , 5th Workshop on CrossCloud Infrastructures & Platforms , Porto , Portugal , 23/04/18 . https://doi.org/10.1145/3195870.3195875 workshop
Publication
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on CrossCloud Infrastructures & Platforms (CrossCloud'18)
Type
Conference item
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