Title :
What´s the Best Way to Purchase Cloud Services?
Abstract :
The author states that the cloud, which launched with the simplest pay-as-you-go or on-demand tariff, was supposed to unleash a new era of simplicity in procuring IT services.
Keywords :
cloud computing; purchasing; socio-economic effects; IT services procurement; cloud services purchase; information technology; on-demand tariff; pay-as-you-go; Biological system modeling; Cloud computing; Complexity theory; Economics; Market research; Pricing; Supply chains; AWS pricing; cloud; cloud economics; cloud service providers; pricing strategies; reserved instances;
Journal_Title :
Cloud Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MCC.2015.53