Dynamic Resource Selection in Cloud Service Broker

Abstract

Cloud Service Broker federates multiple Cloud Service Providers into a single entity to customers. The benefits that can be enjoyed by Cloud Service Consumer are flexibility, ease of use, and reduced cost. However, because of the unique properties and configurations of each cloud provider, sometime it's not easy to migrate between one cloud provider to another. Furthermore, the advantage of using broker should be obtained by consumers in any life cycle of consumer's software not only during the deployment of the software. This paper outlines the main idea and design of the dynamic resource selection in BASMATI Cloud Federation.