Scalability analysis comparisons of cloud-based software services

Ahmad, Amro Al-Said; Andras, Peter

doi:10.1186/s13677-019-0134-y

Scalability analysis comparisons of cloud-based software services

Ahmad, Amro Al-Said; Andras, Peter

Authors

Amro Al-Said Ahmad

Prof Peter Andras P.Andras@napier.ac.uk
Dean of School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment

Abstract

Performance and scalability testing and measurements of cloud-based software services are necessary for future optimizations and growth of cloud computing. Scalability, elasticity, and efficiency are interrelated aspects of cloud-based software services’ performance requirements. In this work, we use a technical measurement of the scalability of cloud-based software services. Our technical scalability metrics are inspired by metrics of elasticity. We used two cloud-based systems to demonstrate the usefulness of our metrics and compare their scalability performance in two cloud platforms: Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure. Our experimental analysis considers three sets of comparisons: first we compare the same cloud-based software service hosted on two different public cloud platforms; second we compare two different cloud-based software services hosted on the same cloud platform; finally, we compare between the same cloud-based software service hosted on the same cloud platform with two different auto-scaling policies. We note that our technical scalability metrics can be integrated into a previously proposed utility oriented metric of scalability. We discuss the implications of our work.

Citation

Ahmad, A. A.-S., & Andras, P. (2019). Scalability analysis comparisons of cloud-based software services. Journal of cloud computing: advances, systems and applications, 8, Article 10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13677-019-0134-y

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Jul 16, 2019
Online Publication Date	Jul 23, 2019
Publication Date	2019
Deposit Date	Nov 2, 2021
Publicly Available Date	Nov 2, 2021
Journal	Journal of Cloud Computing
Publisher	Springer
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	8
Article Number	10
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1186/s13677-019-0134-y
Keywords	Measurement, Performance, Scalability, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Metrics
Public URL	http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2808697

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