A Penalty-Aware Cloud Monitoring System based on Blockchains

A Penalty-Aware Cloud Monitoring System based on Blockchains

Abstract

Today, traded cloud services are described by service level agreements that specify the obligations of providers such as availability or reliability. Violations of service level agreements lead to penalty payments. The recent development of prominent cloud platforms such as the re-design of Amazon’s spot marketspace underpins a trend towards dynamic cloud markets where consumers migrate their services continuously to different marketspaces and providers to reach a cost-optimum. This leads to a heterogeneous IT infrastructure and consequently aggravates the monitoring of the delivered service quality. Hence, there is a need for a transparent penalty management system, which ensures that consumers automatically get penalty payments from providers in case of service violations. In the paper at hand, we present a cloud monitoring system that is able to execute penalty payments autonomously. In this regard, we revert to smart contracts hosted on blockchains. They continuously monitor cloud services and trigger penalty payments to consumers in case of service violations. We implemented the presented approach with the IBM Hyperledger Fabric framework and created a use case with Amazon’s cloud services as well as Azures cloud services to illustrate the universal design of the introduced approach.

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Authors
  • Dienbauer, Christian
  • Pittl, Benedikt
  • Mach, Werner
  • Schikuta, Erich
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Paper in Conference Proceedings or in Workshop Proceedings (Paper)
Event Title
22nd International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS2020)
Divisions
Workflow Systems and Technology
Subjects
Webentwicklung, Webanwendungen
Angewandte Informatik
Event Location
Chiang Mai, Thailand, virtual conference
Event Type
Conference
Event Dates
30th November - 2nd December 2020
Date
30 November 2020
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