Given a large variety of resources and billing contracts offered by today’s cloud providers, the application owner faces a non-trivial challenge optimizing their selection for application workloads.
A number of works exist that deal either with either billing contracts selection optimization or resource types selection. We argue that the largest cost savings to elastic workloads result from jointly optimizing heterogeneous resources and billing contracts selection. To this end, we introduce a novel cloud control and management framework and formulate a novel optimization problem called Heterogeneous Resource Reservation (HRR).
We evaluate our solution through a thorough simulation study using publicly available cloud workload data as well as internal anonymous customer data. For this data we demonstrate that dramatic cost savings are attainable through our proposed approach.
By: Ofer Biran, David Breithand, Dean Lorenz, Michael Masin, Eran Raichstein, Avi Weit, Ilyas Iyoob
Published in: H-0331 in 2018
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