Cost-Effective Reconfiguration for Multi-Cloud Applications

Applications are increasingly being deployed on resources delivered by Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud providers. A major challenge for application owners is continually managing the application deployment in order to satisfy the performance requirements of application users while reducing the charges paid to IaaS providers. This paper proposes an approach for adaptive application deployment that explicitly considers adaptation costs and benefits in making deployment decisions. The approach builds on the PaaSage open-source platform, thus enabling automatic deployment and execution over multiple clouds. The paper describes experiments in a real cloud testbed that demonstrate that the approach enables multi-cloud adaptation while increasing the total value of the application for its owner.