Author:
Fahad Abdel Kader
Affiliation:
Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Keyword(s):
Cloud metering, Cloud computing, Verification of cloud bill, Architecture of cloud meter, Functioning of automated metering, Metering algorithm.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Cloud Applications Performance and Monitoring
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Cloud Computing
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Cloud Computing Enabling Technology
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Economics (ROI, Costs, CAPEX/OPEX,…)
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Monitoring of Services, Quality of Service, Service Level Agreements
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Platforms and Applications
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SAAS, PAAS, IAAS
Abstract:
Cloud computing has recently emerged as a modified computing platform, which offers a variety of services for different level of users. At the moment, such services are offered at very low prices, but as the concept of cloud computing will find more adopters, a real market will emerge. At that point in time it will be critical for the customers to verify the bills that they receive from their cloud provider. Therefore, there is a need to not only verify the correctness of the bill but also that the whole process should be real time and automated. An automated cloud metering solution is presented in this paper. The idea is to design a meter which monitors the respective activities as defined in the terms of SLA and generates a bill accordingly. This generated bill will then be automatically compared with the cloud provider’s bill for any errors. This position paper describes the architectural design of the cloud meter and functioning of the automated meter, and then concludes with th
e information about the future work.
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