Learning objectives:

In this lecture, you will:

• get to know basic cloud billing models
• understand fundamental concepts of cloud computing including IaaS, PaaS, FaaS
• learn various interesting problems when using clouds (lock-in, cloud resource scaling, cloud enomonics, challenges in minimizing the cloud bills)

Lecture slides

• Lec13: Cloud computing: slides pdf

Reading

• Lec13: Berkeley Cloud Computing Survey (required), Cloudscape (optional)

Recordings

• Lec13: video