A Survey of Profit Optimization Techniques for Cloud Providers
“The strategy of improving user service quality is discussed first, followed by the pricing strategy for cloud resources to maximize revenue.”
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Pricing of Service in Clouds: Optimal Response and Strategic Interactions sigmetrics.org
“How should the consumer modulate its demand to optimize its profits? (…) How should the provider and consumer negotiate the specific pricing structure they will employ?” Covers non-linear models, tiered pricing, elastic demand, consumer et provider strategies.
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The Challenges of Operating a Computing Cloud and Charging for its Use web.stanford.edu
Skip the first 90% of this presentation by an AWS VP (which is about general system reliability). The last four slides are a good summary of what billing cloud services entails, especially the use of soft quotas to limit fraud.
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Maximizing Profit of Cloud Brokers under Quantized Billing Cycles: a Dynamic Pricing Strategy based on Ski-Rental… arxiv.org
“The key idea of our algorithms is to use pricing signal to regulate user demand. One may argue that such an algorithm gives poor service to the user as it pushes tasks out of the queue in order to maximize cloud broker's profit.”
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Use-cases for cloud services news.ycombinator.com
The reason usage-based pricing makes even more sense for cloud services: to optimize ROI, keep all regular workload in traditional architecture and reserve cloud computing for elastic and experimental projects.
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Socially Optimal Pricing of Cloud Computing Resources webee.technion.ac.il
“The socially optimal operating point is unique, and can be sustained by a linear, usage-based tariff, which charges a fixed price per unit resource and unit time.” This paper justify usage-based pricing for cloud resources.
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Usage Patterns and the Economics of the Public Cloud mc4f.ee
“We examine the economics of demand and supply in cloud computing. (…) These results explain why fixed prices currently prevail despite the seeming need for time-varying dynamics. Examining the actual CPU utilization provides a lens into the future. (…) demand fluctuations…
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