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The Impact of Public Cloud Price Schemes on Multi-Tenancy

Authors:
Uwe Hohenstein
Stefan Appel

Keywords: multi-tenancy; databases; cost; SaaS

Abstract:
Multi-tenancy is one key element to make Software-as-a-Service profitable. Multi-tenancy refers to an architecture model where one software instance serves a set of multiple clients of different organizations, i.e., tenants. This reduces the number of application instances and consequently saves operational costs. This paper focuses on using relational databases in multi-tenant architectures, thereby stressing the cost aspect in public cloud environments. Investigating the various price schemes of cloud providers, it illustrates the difficulties to achieve cost-efficient multi-tenancy. As a result, the broad variety of price factors and schemes lead to certain, very different strategies and require adapting multi-tenant architectures to fit the respective cloud providers’ specifics.

Pages: 22 to 29

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: March 20, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4294

ISBN: 978-1-61208-460-2

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from March 20, 2016 to March 24, 2016