Functions as a Service (also called serverless computing) promises to revolutionize how
applications use cloud resources. However, functions suffer from cold-start problems due to …

Serverless computing has seen rapid growth due to the ease-of-use and cost-efficiency it
provides. However, function scheduling, a critical component of serverless systems, has …

Cloud providers rent the resources they do not allocate as evictable virtual machines (VMs),
like spot instances. In this paper, we first characterize the unallocated resources in Microsoft …

loud platforms monetize their spare capacity by renting “Spot” virtual machines (VMs) that
can be evicted in favor of higher-priority VMs. Recent work has shown that resource …

We can increase the efficiency of public cloud datacenters by harvesting allocated but
temporarily idling CPU cores from customer virtual machines (VMs) to run batch or analytics …

Serverless computing has emerged as a new paradigm for running short-lived computations
in the cloud. Due to its ability to handle IoT workloads, there has been considerable interest …

Redy is a cloud service that provides high performance caches using RDMA-accessible
remote memory. An application can customize the performance of each cache with a service …

Web companies typically run latency-critical long-running services and resource-intensive,
throughput-hungry batch jobs in a shared cluster for improved utilization and reduced cost …

Cloud platforms today make efficient use of storage resources by slicing them among multi-
tenant applications on demand. However, our study discloses that the cloud storage is still …

Cloud applications are increasingly moving away from monolithic services to agile
microservices-based deployments. However, efficient resource management for …