2020 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS)
Abstract: Dynamic resource allocation is the mechanism that allows one to change the resources associated with applications at runtime and match their actual needs. The autoscaling solutions offered by cloud infrastructures are probably the most widely-used incarnation of this concept. Originally conceived to manage virtual machines according to user-defined rules, they are now much more sophisticated and can also allocate containers (lighter than virtual machines). This paper surveys the autoscaling solutions provided by the major cloud vendors and analyzes the services they provide. It also compares them against the solution we developed, called COCOS autoscaling. We simulated the different proposals and fed them with diverse workloads. Obtained results show that COCOS autoscaling outperforms its competitors in most cases: it optimizes resource allocation and keeps applications' response times under set thresholds.
Keywords: Cloud computing, Runtime, Web services, Containers, Virtual machining, Resource management, Time factors