Distributed Cloud Federation Brokerage: A Live Analysis

This research analyzes the performance of a distributed cloud broker in a live traffic scenario, utilizing a government owned private federated cloud. The paper explores the use case when a cloud broker assists the provisioning of services to geographically distributed data centers which have volunteered to federate and expose their utilization metrics to each other through the cloud broker. The experimental infrastructure utilizes the closed schema for federation. The cloud broker is responsible for match making and bundling/provisioning of services from multiple private cloud providers, through volunteer and federated data centers, under varying load conditions. Being a private cloud and due to limitations of the real life simulation infrastructure, the load generated on the private cloud is handled with distributed cloud brokers working in a federated manner with cloud bursting handled through a common interface visible to the Amazon Web Services (AWS). The analysis of results and usage of the cloud resources was done using the New Relic Analysis engine and results on the performance of the distributed cloud broker were derived in real time. The paper analyzes real world issues faced by organizations handling cloud brokerage frameworks in a distributed manner. The paper aims to recommend ways to mitigate the problems that today´s cloud manager faces using the Federated Cloud Infrastructure in a typical real life scenario. The research asserts that it is possible to create distributed cloud brokers and the perspective of using a hybrid cloud approach using distributed broker in federated clouds is feasible, albeit in a tightly integrated and fine tuned cloud environment.