An In-depth Benchmarking of Evolutionary and Swarm Intelligence Algorithms for Autoscaling Parameter Sweep Applications on Public Clouds

Table 2

On-demand instance specifications corresponding to instances used in the evaluation.

VM type	vCPU	ECU^tot	ECU	Price (USD)
t2.micro	1	1	1	0.013
m3.medium	1	3	2	0.07
c3.2xlarge	8	28	3.5	0.42
r3.xlarge	4	13	3.25	0.35
m3.2xlarge	8	26	3.25	0.56