2 papers
cs.DC2020
No Reservations: A First Look at Amazon's Reserved Instance Marketplace
Pradeep Ambati, David Irwin, Prashant Shenoy
Cloud users can significantly reduce their cost (by up to 60\%) by reserving virtual machines (VMs) for long periods (1 or 3 years) rather than acquiring them on demand. Unfortunat…
cs.DC2020
Hedge Your Bets: Optimizing Long-term Cloud Costs by Mixing VM Purchasing Options
Pradeep Ambati, Noman Bashir, David Irwin +2
Cloud platforms offer the same VMs under many purchasing options that specify different costs and time commitments, such as on-demand, reserved, sustained-use, scheduled reserve, t…