Provisioning on existing cloud platforms
Forward: I participated in a book chapter writing in last month. The book chapter is about cloud provisioning. And the following are some paragraphs prepared for that chapter. Prominent cloud platforms, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), open source platform Eucalyptus, Microsoft Windows Azure, Google App Engine and GoGrid Cloud Hosting offer a variety of services to their users for monitoring, managing and provisioning resources. Amazon EC2 offers three services namely Elastic Load Balancer , Auto Scaling and CloudWatch . Eucalyptus uses a hierarchical controller structure. Windows Azure implements a service called Azure Fabric Controller . GoGrid Cloud Hosting provides a service named F5 Load Balancer . Google App Engine supports scalable technology that all Google applications are based on. All five cloud platforms are able to do load balancing, provisioning and auto scaling to some extent. But the way of achieving the provisioning goals varies. Some platforms can be