Workload Characteristics in Cloud Data Centers: A Computational Study from Alibaba Cloud

Cloud computing is trending in today's digital era in every form and scaling to a peak in order to deliver the mutual expectations for Cloud consumers and providers through Cloud Data Center's. One such data center so called Alibaba Cloud's Data Cluster is analysed in this paper. The online services and Batch jobs co-exist in the same data cluster which leads to multiplexing of resource utilization in Cloud Data Center's. Therefore our findings and insights from this data production cluster allows the community and data center operators better understand the various workload patterns to improve the resource utilization and failure recovery design.