Cloud providers rent the resources they do not allocate as evictable virtual machines (VMs),
like spot instances. In this paper, we first characterize the unallocated resources in Microsoft …

Cloud research to date has lacked data on the characteristics of the production virtual
machine (VM) workloads of large cloud providers. A thorough understanding of these …

Managing resources at large scale while providing performance isolation and efficient use of
underlying hardware is a key challenge for any cloud management software. Most virtual …

We describe the design and implementation of Protean--the Microsoft Azure service
responsible for allocating Virtual Machines (VMs) to millions of servers around the globe. A …

Clouds can be used to provide on-demand capacity as a utility. Although the realization of
this idea can differ among various cloud providers (from Google App Engine1 to Amazon …

Cloud spot markets offer virtual machines (VMs) for a dynamic price that is much lower than
the fixed price of on-demand VMs. In exchange, spot VMs expose applications to multiple …

loud platforms monetize their spare capacity by renting “Spot” virtual machines (VMs) that
can be evicted in favor of higher-priority VMs. Recent work has shown that resource …

Previous work on optimizing resource provisioning in virtualized environments focused
either on mapping virtual machines (VMs) to physical machines (PMs) or mapping …

Current Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds operate in isolation from each other. Slight
variations in the virtual machine (VM) abstractions or underlying hypervisor services prevent …

Serverless computing is becoming increasingly popular due to its ease of programming, fast
elasticity, and fine-grained billing. However, the serverless provider still needs to provision …