The landscape of cloud computing has significantly changed over the last decade. Not only
have more providers and service offerings crowded the space, but also cloud infrastructure …

Cloud computing is now a well-consolidated paradigm for on-demand services provisioning
on a pay-as-you-go model. Elasticity, one of the major benefits required for this computing …

In cloud computing, a provider leases its computing resources in the form of virtual machines
to users, and a price is charged for the period they are used. Though static pricing is the …

As billions of devices get connected to the Internet, it will not be sustainable to use the cloud
as a centralised server. The way forward is to decentralise computations away from the …

This article provides a systematic review of cloud pricing in an interdisciplinary approach. It
examines many historical cases of pricing in practice and tracks down multiple roots of …

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud platforms rent resources, in the form of virtual
machines (VMs), under a variety of contract terms that offer different levels of risk and cost …

Cloud computing has emerged as a very flexible service paradigm by allowing users to
require virtual machine (VM) resources on-demand and allowing cloud service providers …

The economics of cloud computing has recently attracted increasing attention. In particular,
a topic which is still under debate is how prices charged to customers for cloud resources …

Cloud computing manifests exceptional capacity to facilitate easy to manage, cost effective,
flexible and powerful resources across the internet. Due to maximum and shared utilization …

This paper considers two simple pricing schemes for selling cloud instances and studies the
trade-off between them. We characterize the equilibrium for the hybrid system where arriving …