Energy Efficient Cloud Architecture Solutions: A Real Case

Abstract

The technology sector contributes a large amount of power consumption, specifically the cloud providers with their large data centers. Major cloud providers work toward sustainable data centers; however, organizations not building correct cloud architectures could contribute to large amounts of wasted power. This paper aims to review the research conducted into increasing the energy efficiency of cloud-based systems and further simulate a real-world architecture solution, analyzing its energy efficiency and providing improvement solutions. The literature review provides insights into cloud-based architectures and resources. The simulations show that the use case could save upwards of 74% of power by using a proper scaling broker and upwards of 85.4% with an improved virtual machine consolidation algorithm.