Value for Money: An Experimental Comparison of Cloud Pricing and Performance

Michiel Willocx, Ilse Bohé, Vincent Naessens

2024

Abstract

Organizations increasingly rely on cloud providers for computation intensive tasks. This study executes computation expensive experiments in five cloud environments with a substantial market share. More specifically, we selected the big three and two representative European counterparts. By means of the experiments, we aim at comparing and assessing their value for money with respect to computational intensive tasks. The paper focuses on three aspects with high interest of industrial stakeholders, namely (a) the impact of server location and time of day on performance, (b) the computational efficiency in relation to costs, and (c) a comparison between European service providers and the big three in the cloud space.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Willocx M., Bohé I. and Naessens V. (2024). Value for Money: An Experimental Comparison of Cloud Pricing and Performance. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER; ISBN 978-989-758-701-6, SciTePress, pages 140-148. DOI: 10.5220/0012545400003711

in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer24,
author={Michiel Willocx and Ilse Bohé and Vincent Naessens},
title={Value for Money: An Experimental Comparison of Cloud Pricing and Performance},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER},
year={2024},
pages={140-148},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012545400003711},
isbn={978-989-758-701-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER
TI - Value for Money: An Experimental Comparison of Cloud Pricing and Performance
SN - 978-989-758-701-6
AU - Willocx M.
AU - Bohé I.
AU - Naessens V.
PY - 2024
SP - 140
EP - 148
DO - 10.5220/0012545400003711
PB - SciTePress