IJCATR Volume 5 Issue 3

Pricing Models for Cloud Computing Services, a Survey

Taj Eldin Suliman M. Ali Hany H. Ammar
10.7753/IJCATR0503.1002
keywords : Cloud Computing; Software-as-a-Service (SaaS); Service Level Agreement (SLA); Dynamic pricing; Quality of Service (QoS); revenue maximization; CSL

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Recently, citizens and companies can access utility computing services by using Cloud Computing. These services such as infrastructures, platforms and applications could be accessed on-demand whenever it is needed. In Cloud Computing, different types of resources would be required to provide services, but the demands such as requests rates and user's requirements of these services and the cost of the required resources are continuously varying. Therefore, Service Level Agreements would be needed to guarantee the service's prices and the offered Quality of Services which are always dependable and interrelated to guarantee revenues maximization for cloud providers as well as improve customers' satisfaction level. Cloud consumers are always searching for a cloud provider who provides good service with the least price, so Cloud provider should use advanced technologies and frameworks to increase QoS, and decrease cost. This paper provides a survey on cloud pricing models and analyzes the recent and relevant research in this field.
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Title = "Pricing Models for Cloud Computing Services, a Survey",
Journal ="International Journal of Computer Applications Technology and Research(IJCATR)",
Volume = "5",
Issue ="3",
Pages ="126 - 131",
Year = "2016",
Authors ="Taj Eldin Suliman M. Ali Hany H. Ammar"}
  • The Paper discusses a comprehensive survey in Cloud computing Pricing models.
  • More than ten pricing models for cloud computing are explained.
  • The comparison among these pricing models has been shown.
  • Many issues and challenges for pricing models are discussed.