Cloud brokering: New value-added services and pricing policies

Abstract

The aim of this book is to propose advanced value-added ser-vices and a pricing model for cloud brokers. This book has three objectives: • The first one is to present a single figure of merit of cloud VMs performance based on the application pro file. • The second one is to propose an exact approach for allocation of VMs across multiple cloud providers based on di fferent optimization criteria. • The third one is to describe a pricing model for cloud brokering, called pay-asyou-book.