A day late and a dollar short: The case for research on cloud billing systems

6th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing, HotCloud 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Jellinek, Robert ^a   Zhai, Yan ^a   Ristenpart, Thomas ^a   Swift, Michael ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINES; INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE (IAAS); SALES; WEB SERVICES;

AMAZON WEB SERVICES; BILLING SYSTEMS; CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMS; CLOUD PROVIDERS; COST EFFICIENCY; FINE GRANULARITY; MEASUREMENT STUDY; RESOURCE USAGE;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 85034026664     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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