Predicting CPU usage for proactive autoscaling

Abstract

Private and public clouds require users to specify requests for resources such as CPU and memory (RAM) to be provisioned for their applications. The values of these requests do not necessarily relate to the application's run-time requirements, but only help the cloud infrastructure resource manager to map requested resources to physical resources. If an application exceeds these values, it might be throttled or even terminated. As a consequence, requested values are often overestimated, resulting in poor resource utilization in the cloud infrastructure. Autoscaling is a technique used to overcome these problems.

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