Authors
Chard, Ryan; Chard, Kyle; Wolski, Rich; Madduri, Ravi; Ng, Bryan; Bubendorfer, Kris; Foster, Ian
Abstract
Here we present Scalable Cost-Aware Cloud Infrastructure Management and Provisioning (SCRIMP)- a service-based system that enables application developers and users to reliably outsource the task of provisioning cloud infrastructure. We show that by understanding application requirements, predicting dynamic market conditions, and automatically provisioning infrastructure according to user-defined policies and real-time conditions that our approaches can reduce costs by an order of magnitude when using commercial clouds while also improving execution performance and efficiency.