Spock: Exploiting serverless functions for SLO and cost aware resource procurement in public cloud

Jashwant Raj Gunasekaran, Prashanth Thinakaran, Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, George Kesidis, Chita Das

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Abstract

We are witnessing the emergence of elastic web services which are hosted in public cloud infrastructures. For reasons of cost-effectiveness, it is crucial for the elasticity of these web services to match the dynamically-evolving user demand. Traditional approaches employ clusters of virtual machines (VMs) to dynamically scale resources based on application demand. However, they still face challenges such as higher cost due to over-provisioning or incur service level objective (SLO) violations due to under-provisioning. Motivated by this observation, we propose Spock, a new scalable and elastic control system that exploits both VMs and serverless functions to reduce cost and ensure SLO for elastic web services. We show that under two different scaling policies, Spock reduces SLO violations of queries by up to 74\% when compared to VM-based resource procurement schemes. Further, Spock yields significant cost savings, by up to 33\% compared to traditional approaches which use only VMs.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, CLOUD 2019 - Part of the 2019 IEEE World Congress on Services
EditorsElisa Bertino, Carl K. Chang, Peter Chen, Ernesto Damiani, Michael Goul, Katsunori Oyama
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages199-208
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781728127057
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2019
Event12th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, CLOUD 2019 - Milan, Italy
Duration: Jul 8 2019Jul 13 2019

Publication series

NameIEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, CLOUD
Volume2019-July
ISSN (Print)2159-6182
ISSN (Electronic)2159-6190

Conference

Conference12th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, CLOUD 2019
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityMilan
Period7/8/197/13/19

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Information Systems
  • Software

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