Cost and utilization optimization of Amazon EC2 instances

Pannagiotis Kokkinos; T. A. Varvarigou; Aristotelis Kretsis; P. Soumplis; E. A. Varvarigos

doi:10.1109/CLOUD.2013.52

Cost and utilization optimization of Amazon EC2 instances

Pannagiotis Kokkinos, T. A. Varvarigou, Aristotelis Kretsis, P. Soumplis, E. A. Varvarigos

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Other › peer-review

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Abstract

The monitoring and the analysis of public clouds gains momentum, due to their widespread exploitation by individual users, researchers and companies for their daily tasks. We propose an algorithm for optimizing the cost and the utilization of a set of running Amazon EC2 instances by resizing them appropriately. The algorithm, namely Cost and Utilization Optimization (CUO) algorithm, receives information regarding the current set of instances used (their number, type, utilization) and proposes a new set of instances for serving the same load, so as to minimize cost and maximize utilization, or increase performance efficiency. CUO is integrated in Smart cloud Monitoring (SuMo), an open-source tool we develop for collecting monitoring data from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and analyzing them. A number of experiments are performed, using input data that correspond to realist AWS configuration scenarios, which exhibit the benefits of the CUO algorithm.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2013 IEEE Sixth International Conference on Cloud Computing
Publisher	IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages	518-525
Number of pages	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CLOUD.2013.52
Publication status	Published - 2013
Externally published	Yes
Event	IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing 2013 - Santa Clara, United States of America Duration: 27 Jun 2013 → 2 Jul 2013 Conference number: 6th https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/6596015/proceeding (Proceedings)

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Conference	IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing 2013
Abbreviated title	CLOUD 2013
Country/Territory	United States of America
City	Santa Clara
Period	27/06/13 → 2/07/13
Internet address	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/6596015/proceeding (Proceedings)

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amazon web services
cost
monitoring
optimization
public clouds
utilization

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Kokkinos, P, Varvarigou, TA, Kretsis, A, Soumplis, P & Varvarigos, EA 2013, Cost and utilization optimization of Amazon EC2 instances. in 2013 IEEE Sixth International Conference on Cloud Computing. IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, pp. 518-525, IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing 2013, Santa Clara, California, United States of America, 27/06/13. https://doi.org/10.1109/CLOUD.2013.52

Cost and utilization optimization of Amazon EC2 instances. / Kokkinos, Pannagiotis; Varvarigou, T. A.; Kretsis, Aristotelis et al.

2013 IEEE Sixth International Conference on Cloud Computing. IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2013. p. 518-525.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Other › peer-review

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