Research Article

Research on Methods for Discovering and Selecting Cloud Infrastructure Services Based on Feature Modeling

Table 1

Summary of important attributes of the main IaaS features.

FeatureAttributeTypeRemarks

IaaSperiodcostrealPeriodic cost
availabilityreal
securitylevelrealSecurity level
netdelayintNetwork latency

VMHDDstringSolid state or magnetic
memoryreal
SPECCPU2006intCPU benchmark value
scaling latencyintScaling resource latency

LoadBalancercostmonthrealCost per month
numintLoad balancer number

Networkavailabilityreal
supportipv6boolSupport for IPv6
estimatetrafficrealEstimate traffic per month

Storageavailabilityreal
persistencerealStorage persistence

FreetrafficfreelimitrealFree traffic per month
extrapricerealExtra traffic price