Cloud Cost City: A Visualization of Cloud Costs using the City Metaphor

Veronika Dashuber, Michael Philippsen

2021

Abstract

Many companies are in the process of migrating their entire IT infrastructure into the cloud in order to benefit from its high elasticity and scalability. While cloud providers offer basic cost visualizations such as line, bar or pie charts, companies lose track of which part of their infrastructure causes which costs. We adapt the city metaphor to visualize both the architecture and the costs. We offer a flexible framework to structure and tailor the visualization as desired. Using the Goal-Question-Metric approach, we identify cost savings potential and demonstrate for an example cloud infrastructure that the defined metrics are easier to grasp in our visualization compared to a standard cost dashboard.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Dashuber V. and Philippsen M. (2021). Cloud Cost City: A Visualization of Cloud Costs using the City Metaphor. In Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2021) - Volume 3: IVAPP; ISBN 978-989-758-488-6, SciTePress, pages 173-180. DOI: 10.5220/0010254701730180

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ivapp21,
author={Veronika Dashuber and Michael Philippsen},
title={Cloud Cost City: A Visualization of Cloud Costs using the City Metaphor},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2021) - Volume 3: IVAPP},
year={2021},
pages={173-180},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010254701730180},
isbn={978-989-758-488-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2021) - Volume 3: IVAPP
TI - Cloud Cost City: A Visualization of Cloud Costs using the City Metaphor
SN - 978-989-758-488-6
AU - Dashuber V.
AU - Philippsen M.
PY - 2021
SP - 173
EP - 180
DO - 10.5220/0010254701730180
PB - SciTePress