A Descriptive Study on Resource Provisioning Approaches in Cloud Computing Environment

Abstract

Cloud computing has become a promising technology in many organizations. A huge amount of applications is accessed through Cloud at anytime and anywhere. Hence provisioning the resources at the right time is a challenging task in Cloud computing environment. The Cloud consumers utilize resources using Virtual machines based on a “Pay-as-you-go” basis. For this, the two types of resource provisioning plans were offered by the Cloud providers, namely On-Demand plan and Reservation plan. In common, the reservation scheme has low cost than On-Demand plan. Cloud computing environment provides different types of resource provisioning approaches for minimizing total cost. The good resource provisioning approach should avoid disintegration of resources, lack of resources, disputation of resources, over provisioning and under provisioning. This paper mainly focuses on giving an overview of Cloud computing, resource provisioning and descriptive analysis of various resource provisioning algorithms and techniques.