OptiSpot: minimizing application deployment cost using spot cloud resources.

ABSTRACT: The spot instance model is a virtual machine pricing scheme in which some resources of cloud providers are offered to the highest bidder. This leads to the formation of a spot price, whose fluctuations can determine customers to be overbid by other users and lose the virtual machine they rented. In this paper we propose OptiSpot, a heuristic to automate application deployment decisions on cloud providers that offer the spot pricing model. In particular, with our approach it is possible to determine: (i) which and how many resources to rent in order to run a cloud application, (ii) how to map the application components to the rented resources, and (iii) what spot price bids to use to minimize the total cost while maintaining an acceptable level of performance. To drive the decision making,

SUBMITTER: Dubois DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6959408 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature