A Dynamic Data-Driven Simulation Approach for Preventing Service Level Agreement Violations in Cloud Federation

The new possibility of accessing an infinite pool of computational resources at a drastically reduced price has made cloud computing popular. With the increase in its adoption and unpredictability of workload, cloud providers are faced with the problem of meeting their service level agreement (SLA) claims as demonstrated by large vendors such as Amazon and Google. Therefore, users of cloud resources are embracing the more promising cloud federation model to ensure service guarantees. Here, users have the option of selecting between multiple cloud providers and subsequently switching to a more reliable one in the event of a provider’s inability to meet its SLA. In this paper, we propose a novel dynamic data-driven architecture capable of realising resource provision in a cloud federation with minimal SLA violations. We exemplify the approach with the aid of case studies to demonstrate its feasibility.