Decision model for provisioning virtual resources in Amazon EC2

Author

Tian, Cheng ; Wang, Ying ; Qi, Feng ; Yin, Bo

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Networking & Switching Technol., Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., Beijing, China

fYear

2012

fDate

22-26 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

159

Lastpage

163

Abstract

Nowadays computing resources can be acquired from IaaS cloud providers in different purchasing options. Taking Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for instance, there are three purchasing models, and each option has different price and yields different benefit to clients. The issue that we address in this paper is how cloud users could make a provisioning plan for computing resources. We propose a model which is based on the characteristics of three purchasing options provided by Amazon EC2, which can be used for guiding the capacity planning activity.

Keywords

cloud computing; decision making; pricing; purchasing; resource allocation; Amazon EC2; Amazon elastic compute cloud; IaaS cloud providers; capacity planning; cloud users; computing resources; decision model; provisioning plan; purchasing models; spot pricing; virtual resource provisioning; Capacity planning; Cloud computing; Computational modeling; Optimization; Planning; Pricing; Probability distribution; Amazon EC2; capacity planning; cloud computing; cost optimization; spot pricing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Network and service management (cnsm), 2012 8th international conference and 2012 workshop on systems virtualiztion management (svm)

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-3134-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-3-901882-48-7

Type

conf

Filename

6380006