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<p>Rapid growth in the popularity of cloud computing has been largely caused by increasing demand for scalable IT solutions, which could provide a cost-effective way to manage the software development process and meet business objectives. Optimization of cloud resource usage remains a key issue given its potential to significantly increase efficiency and flexibility, minimize costs, ensure security, and maintain high availability of services. This paper presents a novel concept of a <italic>Cloud Computing Resource Prediction and Optimization System</italic>, which is based on exploratory data analysis that acknowledges, among others, the information value of outliers and dynamic feature selection. The optimization of cloud resource usage relies on long-term forecasting, which is considered a dynamic and proactive optimization category. The analysis presented here focuses on the applicability of classical statistical models, XGBoost, neural networks and Transformer. Experimental results reveal that machine learning methods are highly effective in long-term forecasting. Particularly promising results – in the context of potential prediction-based dynamic resource reservations – have been yielded by prediction methods based on the BiGRU neural network and the Temporal Fusion Transformer.</p>
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Rapid growth in the popularity of cloud computing has been largely caused by increasing demand for scalable IT solutions, which could provide a cost-effective way to manage the software development process and meet business objectives. Optimization of cloud resource usage remains a key issue given its potential to significantly increase efficiency and flexibility, minimize costs, ensure security, and maintain high availability of services. This paper presents a novel concept of a Cloud Computing Resource Prediction and Optimization System, which is based on exploratory data analysis that acknowledges, among others, the information value of outliers and dynamic feature selection. The optimization of cloud resource usage relies on long-term forecasting, which is considered a dynamic and proactive optimization category. The analysis presented here focuses on the applicability of classical statistical models, XGBoost, neural networks and Transformer. Experimental results reveal that machine learning methods are highly effective in long-term forecasting. Particularly promising results – in the context of potential prediction-based dynamic resource reservations – have been yielded by prediction methods based on the BiGRU neural network and the Temporal Fusion Transformer.

Optimization of the Use of Cloud Computing Resources Using Exploratory Data Analysis and Machine Learning

Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing Research

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Rapid growth in the popularity of cloud computing has been largely caused by increasing demand for scalable IT solutions, which could provide a cost-effective...

Optimization of the Use of Cloud Computing Resources Using Exploratory Data Analysis and Machine Learning

Data publikacji: 29 lip 2024

Zakres stron: 287 - 308

Otrzymano: 18 kwi 2024

Przyjęty: 04 cze 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jaiscr-2024-0016

Słowa kluczowe
cloud computing, machine learning, exploratory data analysis, optimization, resource management

© 2024 Piotr Nawrocki et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Optimization of the Use of Cloud Computing Resources Using Exploratory Data Analysis and Machine Learning

Data publikacji: 29 lip 2024

Zakres stron: 287 - 308

Otrzymano: 18 kwi 2024

Przyjęty: 04 cze 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jaiscr-2024-0016

Słowa kluczowecloud computing, machine learning, exploratory data analysis, optimization, resource management

© 2024 Piotr Nawrocki et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Słowa kluczowe
cloud computing, machine learning, exploratory data analysis, optimization, resource management