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Tactic: Continuously evaluate right sizing

Tactic sort: Awesome Tactic
Type: Architectural Tactic
Category: resource-allocation
Tags: cost-reduction  scaling 

Title

Continuously evaluate right sizing

Description

Right sizing is the process of matching instance types and sizes to your workload performance and capacity requirements at the lowest possible cost. More-over, it involves the identification of opportunities to downsize without compromising capacity or other requirements. From an energy perspective, it can be assessed which resources are most suitable to optimize for energy efficiency. For example, data can be stored using several different services (e.g., S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage, Glacier, Tape). Where the data is stored, impacts the energy consumption.

Participant

Cloud consumer

Related software artifact

Cloud workloads or resources

Context

Public cloud

Software feature

< unknown >

Tactic intent

Optimizing cost-efficiency by selecting appropriate instance types for workloads or resources

Target quality attribute

Cost-efficiency

Other related quality attributes

Energy-efficiency

Measured impact

< unknown >

Source

Master Thesis “Architectural Tactics to Optimize Software for Energy Efficiency in the Public Cloud” by Sophie Vos


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  • Contact person
  • Patricia Lago (VU Amsterdam)
  •  disc at vu.nl
  •  patricialago.nl

The Archive of Awesome and Dark Tactics (AADT) is an initiative of the Digital Sustainability Center (DiSC). It received funding from the VU Amsterdam Sustainability Institute, and is maintained by the S2 Group of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Initial development of the Archive of Awesome and Dark Tactics by Robin van der Wiel