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Title | ||
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Reducing Costs of Spot Instances via Checkpointing in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud |
Abstract | ||
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Recently introduced spot instances in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) offer lower resource costs in exchange for reduced reliability; these instances can be revoked abruptly due to price and demand fluctuations. Mechanisms and tools that deal with the cost-reliability trade-offs under this schema are of great value for users seeking to lessen their costs while maintaining high reliability. We study how one such a mechanism, namely check pointing, can be used to minimize the cost and volatility of resource provisioning. Based on the real price history of EC2 spot instances, we compare several adaptive check pointing schemes in terms of monetary costs and improvement of job completion times. Trace-based simulations show that our approach can reduce significantly both price and the task completion times. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2010 | 10.1109/CLOUD.2010.35 | IEEE CLOUD |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
spot instances,checkpointing,spot instance,task completion time,reduced reliability,checkpointing mechanism,amazon elastic compute cloud,lower resource cost,job completion time,high reliability,ec2 spot instance,reliability,internet,real price history,cost-reliability trade-offs,middleware,resource provisioning,cloud computing,adaptive check,pricing,adaptive systems,probability density function,computational modeling,history | Middleware,Computer science,Adaptive system,Real-time computing,Provisioning,Fault tolerance,Probability density function,Volatility (finance),Cloud computing,Distributed computing,The Internet | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
978-0-7695-4130-3 | 123 | 7.34 |
References | Authors | |
13 | 3 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sangho Yi | 1 | 538 | 35.84 |
| Derrick Kondo | 2 | 1541 | 82.99 |
| Artur Andrzejak | 3 | 123 | 7.34 |