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One of the important aspects of Cloud computing is certainly the pay-per-use model; users have to pay only for those resources they are actively using, on a timely basis. This model paired with principally infinite resources promises to run applications at lower costs, arguably.
This paper demonstrates by means of two case studies that applications in the cloud can cause high operational costs depending on the building blocks used. Different architectural decisions result in significantly different operational costs. Costs should thus obtain much more attention when architecting for the cloud.
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Hohenstein, U., Krummenacher, R., Mittermeier, L., Dippl, S. (2013). Towards Cost Aspects in Cloud Architectures. In: Ivanov, I.I., van Sinderen, M., Leymann, F., Shan, T. (eds) Cloud Computing and Services Science. CLOSER 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 367. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04519-1_8
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