Assessing Cloud Infrastructure Costs in Communications-Intensive Applications

WHAT COST US CLOUD COMPUTING? - A Case Study on How to Decide for or Against IaaS based Virtual Labs

“…Almost every analyzed publication repeats this more or less unreflected -even Talukader et al (Talukader et al, 2010). This paper does not denial this postulation in general but advocates a more critical view like (Weinmann, 2011) or (Mazhelis et al, 2011) do.…”

Cost benefits of flexible hybrid cloud storage: Mitigating volume variation with shorter acquisition cycle

“…;Risch and Altmann (2008);Andrikopoulos et al (2013);Kashef and Altmann (2012);Kondo et al (2009);;;;;;Mazhelis et al (2012b); Truong and Dustdar (2010); Mazhelis et al (2012a); Agarwala et al (2011); Gonzalez et al (2013); Adams et al (2009) cost of data in/out Khajeh-Hosseini et al (2012, 2011); Risch and Altmann (2008); Andrikopoulos et al (2013); Kashef and Altmann (2012); Kondo et al (2009); Armbrust et al (2010); Hajjat et al (2010); Truong and Dustdar (2010); Opitz et al (2008); Martens et al (2012); Mian et al (2012); Martens and Teuteberg (2012); Kratzke (2012); Mazhelis (2012); Mazhelis and Tyrväinen (2011, 2012); Mazhelis et al (2012b); Truong and Dustdar (2010); Mazhelis et al (2012a); Agarwala et al (2011); Gonzalez et al (2013); Adams et al (2009) cost of message queuing service, such as Amazon Simple Queue Service (decoupling the components of a cloud application) Hernández et al (2013) cost of load balancing Hernández et al (2013); Mazhelis (2012) cost of Domain Name System (DNS) web service, such as Amazon Route 53 Hernández et al (2013) pricing models and utility premium of the cloud provider Mazhelis (2012); Mazhelis and Tyrväinen (2012); Weinman (2011b,a); Laatikainen et al (2014); Mazhelis et al (2012a); Agarwala et al (2011) charging/billing period of the cloud provider Mazhelis (2012); Laatikainen et al (2014); Mazhelis et al (2012a) Continued on next page…”

“…;Mazhelis et al (2012b);Weinman (2011c,b,a);Laatikainen et al (2014);Mazhelis et al (2012a);Tak et al (2013);Risch and Altmann (2008);Truong and Dustdar (2010);Kashef and Altmann (2012);Klems et al (2009);Misra and Mondal (2011);Agarwala et al (2011);Adams et al (2009) storage growth rateTak et al (2013);Brumec and Vrček (2013);Mastroeni and Naldi (2011);Laatikainen et al (2014);Mazhelis et al (2012a). (2014);Mazhelis et al (2012a);Kashef and Altmann (2012);Klems et al (2009); Adams et al (2009) application type (Sequential or multi-threaded program, Parallel/MPI programs on multiple machines, workflows), application complexity, performance changes, possible security vulnerability, various time delayTruong and Dustdar (2010);Tak et al (2013) application requirements (e.g.…”