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Table 1 Cost areas of cloud computing TCO

From: Cloudy transaction costs: a dive into cloud computing economics

 

Service model

SaaS

IaaS

PaaS

Management

▪ Strategic Decision and Selection of Cloud Services [1, 33]

Delivery

▪ Implementation, Configuration, Integration and Migration [33]

▪ Support [33]

▪ Initial training [1, 33]

Quality

▪ Backsourcing or Discarding [33].

▪ System Failure [33].

Price

▪ Service Charge [1, 33]

▪ Execution time [47].

▪ Costs for input data transfer [47].

▪ Costs for output data transfer [47]

▪ CPU instance/hour [47]

▪ storage/month [47]

▪ Service Charge [33]

▪ Load curve [44]

▪ RAM [44]

▪ Storage and network usage [44, 45]

▪ Cost of virtual machine CPU hour [45].

▪ Cost of time contingent [45].

▪ Internet bandwidth cost [45].

▪ Cost of inbound data transfer [45].

▪ Cost of outbound data transfer [45].

▪ Service Charge [33]

Service

▪ Maintenance and Modification [33]

▪ Permanent training [1, 33].

Communication

▪ Evaluation and Selection of vendor [1, 33]