Performance measurement in cloud architectures - an analysis of the Azure cloud
Hartung István
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BME, Irányítástechnika és Informatika Tanszék
Goldschmidt Balázs dr
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BME Irányítástechnika és Informatika Tanszék
Cloud technology allows users and developers to deploy applications and services in the cloud instead of utilizing the disk and CPU of local resources. A growing number of companies outsource their services to a private or public cloud. These centrally managed and maintained data centers allow companies to save costs on application hosting. However the quality of these applications are exposed to the QoS values of the cloud provider, which can mean a big risk in case of a business-critical service where high availability is important. In addition the applications performance is influenced by many rare external processes which are also due to the cloud based environment. In our research we investigated the Azure cloud provider in case of an application which receives big load and examined unusual performance changes due to automatic performance logging or reinstallation of the application.