Cloud Cost City: A Visualization of Cloud Costs Using the City Metaphor

Dashuber V, Philippsen M (2021)

Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Conference contribution, Conference Contribution

Publication year: 2021

Publisher: SciTePress

City/Town: Portugal

Pages Range: 173 - 180

Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP) - Volume 3: IVAPP

Event location: Virtual, originally Vienna, Austria AT

ISBN: 978-989-758-488-6

DOI: 10.5220/0010254701730180

Open Access Link: https://www.scitepress.org/PublicationsDetail.aspx?ID=4VmsOKPfKSM=&t=1

Abstract

Many companies are in the process of migrating their entire IT infrastructure into the cloud in order to benefit
from its high elasticity and scalability. While cloud providers offer basic cost visualizations such as line, bar
or pie charts, companies lose track of which part of their infrastructure causes which costs. We adapt the city
metaphor to visualize both the architecture and the costs. We offer a flexible framework to structure and tailor
the visualization as desired. Using the Goal-Question-Metric approach, we identify cost savings potential and
demonstrate for an example cloud infrastructure that the defined metrics are easier to grasp in our visualization
compared to a standard cost dashboard.

Authors with CRIS profile

Veronika Dashuber Lehrstuhl für Informatik 2 (Programmiersysteme) Michael Philippsen Lehrstuhl für Informatik 2 (Programmiersysteme)

Related research project(s)

Cooperative Exploration and Analysis of Software in a Virtual/Augmented Reality Appliance (Holoware) Kooperative Exploration und Analyse von Software in einer Virtual/Augmented Reality Appliance Sept. 1, 2018 - Dec. 31, 2022

How to cite

APA:

Dashuber, V., & Philippsen, M. (2021). Cloud Cost City: A Visualization of Cloud Costs Using the City Metaphor. In Christophe Hurter, Helen Purchase, Jose Braz, Kadi Bouatouch (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP) - Volume 3: IVAPP (pp. 173 - 180). Virtual, originally Vienna, Austria, AT: Portugal: SciTePress.

MLA:

Dashuber, Veronika, and Michael Philippsen. "Cloud Cost City: A Visualization of Cloud Costs Using the City Metaphor." Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications (IVAPP), Virtual, originally Vienna, Austria Ed. Christophe Hurter, Helen Purchase, Jose Braz, Kadi Bouatouch, Portugal: SciTePress, 2021. 173 - 180.

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