Cloud Broker: Working in federated structures

The research analyzes the functioning of an Autonomic Cloud Broker (ACB) in a real life scenario utilizing a Federated Cloud Infrastructure. The paper analyzes two important use cases that exist while a Cloud Broker enables the provision of services from multiple cloud providers to simultaneously demanding cloud users. Varying, real time load conditions are generated in a live use case on a private cloud with distributed cloud brokers working in a federated manner with cloud bursting handled through a common interface visible to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure. The analysis engine is generated using the NewRelic Analysis engine and results on the performance of the broker are derived in real time. The paper highlights real world issues plaguing the Cloud Brokerage framework and indicates ways to mitigate the same using the Federated Cloud Infrastructure combining the Public Cloud and a private cloud. The research asserts that it is possible to create Autonomic Cloud Brokers, albeit in a tightly integrated and fine tuned cloud environment.