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COSTA: A cost-driven solution for migrating applications in multi-cloud environments

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Leandro Costa da Silva,

Robson De Medeiros,

Nelson RosaAuthors Info & Claims

SAC '23: Proceedings of the 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

Pages 57 - 63

https://doi.org/10.1145/3555776.3577718

Published: 07 June 2023 Publication History

Abstract

This paper focuses on the runtime replacement of microservice-based applications (MBAs), considering cost aspects. Several existing solutions also focus on replacement issues, but they usually concentrate on performance aspects and do not consider cost in the decision-making process. This paper presents COSTA (COST management and Adaptive system), a solution that monitors public clouds' costs and manages the migration of applications between them, considering the application's budget and execution cost. Several experiments were conducted to assess the solution, looking for scenarios ideal for evaluating a migration among clouds. In the end, COSTA effectively reduced the cost of applications through cloud providers migration.

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https://doi.org/10.1109/IC2E362166.2024.10827688

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COSTA: A cost-driven solution for migrating applications in multi-cloud environments
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    1. Distributed architectures
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DOI:10.1145/3555776

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Kancharla JKumar S(2024)Advancing Data Sovereignty in Distributed Environments: An In-Depth Exploration of Data Localization Challenges2024 International Conference on Computer, Electronics, Electrical Engineering & their Applications (IC2E3)10.1109/IC2E362166.2024.10827688(1-6)Online publication date: 6-Jun-2024
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