Estimating the Cost of Digital Service Delivery over Clouds

Our research envisions a framework to analyze dynamics of service delivery over different environments including cloud platforms. Our research takes into account the business objectives, service development and deployment dynamics, data center and cloud dynamics for analysis, prediction, simulation and comparison of profits generated by the delivered services to the organization. This paper focuses on estimating the cost of digital services when such services are provided with on-premise IT infrastructure and with on-cloud infrastructure in a hybrid cloud deployment. The required computing resources for delivering the digital service are estimated. After that, the costs are estimated with pay-per-use pricing, subscription pricing on-cloud infrastructure in a hybrid cloud deployment. The required computing resources for delivering the digital service are estimated. After that, the costs are estimated with pay-per-useand auction pricing models.