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Type Conference or Workshop Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Published in Proceedings Yes
Title Bursting With Possibilities – an Empirical Study of Credit-Based Bursting Cloud Instance Types
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Philipp Leitner
  • Joel Scheuner
Presentation Type paper
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed No
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
ISBN 978-0-7695-5697-0
Page Range 227 - 236
Event Title 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC)
Event Type conference
Event Location Limassol, Cyprus
Event Start Date December 7 - 2015
Event End Date December 10 - 2015
Place of Publication IEEE Computer Society
Publisher IEEE Xplore
Abstract Text We study the performance and cost efficiency as perceived by the end user of a specific class of Infrastructure-as- a-Service (IaaS) cloud instances, namely credit-based bursting instances. This class of instance types has been introduced by Amazon EC2 in summer 2014, and behaves on a fundamental level differently than any other existing instance type, either from EC2 or other vendors. We introduce a basic formal model for fostering the understanding and analysis of these types, and empirically study their performance in practice. Further, we compare the performance of credit-based bursting cloud instance types to existing general-purpose types, and derive potential use cases for practitioners. Our results indicate that bursting instance types are cost-efficient for CPU-bound applications with an average utilization of less than 40%, as well as for non-critical IO-bound applications. Finally, we also discuss a simple boosting scheme that enables practitioners to improve the cost efficiency of their bursting instance usage under given constraints.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/UCC.2015.39
Other Identification Number merlin-id:12359
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