SPA: Harnessing Availability in the AWS Spot MarketShow others and affiliations
2021 (English)In: IEEE CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS WORKSHOPS (IEEE INFOCOM WKSHPS 2021), IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers transient virtual servers at a discounted price as a way to sell unused spare capacity in its data centers. Although transient servers are very appealing as some instances have up to 90% discount, they are not bound to regular availability guarantees as they are opportunistic resources sold on the spot market. In this paper, we present SPA, a framework that remarkably increases the spot instance reliability over time due to insights gained from the analysis of historical data, such as cross-region price variability and intervals between evictions. We implemented the SPA reliability strategy, evaluated them using over one year of historical pricing data from AWS, and found out that we can increase the transient instance lifetime by adding a pricing overhead of 3.5% in the spot price in the best scenario.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021.
Series
IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, ISSN 2159-4228
National Category
Communication Systems
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-484245DOI: 10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS51825.2021.9484646ISI: 000844130800193ISBN: 978-1-6654-0443-3 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-484245DiVA, id: diva2:1694201
Conference
IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (IEEE INFOCOM), MAY 09-12, 2021, ELECTR NETWORK
2022-09-082022-09-082024-01-15Bibliographically approved