EFfective Tariff Selection On Cloud Services: A consumer perspective

Cloud computing changed the way of computing as utility services offered through public network. The adoption of cloud computing services has gained the momentum over these years, due to the agility and cost associated for accessing computational services over traditional one. The cloud providers offer similar services with nonlinear pricing to differentiate the services and to cater the various consumer market segments. This paper investigates different tariff of cloud service: usage based, flat rate, two part tariff, three part tariff with allowance and freemium. In particular, the cloud service tariff evaluation and choice models have been reviewed and the selection of optimal cloud pricing plan methodology for consumers is proposed.