What is Cloud Federation is is ?

Last Updated :
15 Mar, 2021

Cloud Federation, also known as Federated Cloud is the deployment and management of several external and internal cloud computing services to match business needs. It is a multi-national cloud system that integrates private, community, and public clouds into scalable computing platforms. Federated cloud is created by connecting the cloud environment of different cloud providers using a common standard.

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The architecture of Federated Cloud:

The architecture of Federated Cloud consists of three basic components:

1 . Cloud Exchange

The Cloud Exchange is acts act as a mediator between cloud coordinator and cloud broker . The demand of the cloud broker are map by the cloud exchange to the available service provide by the cloud coordinator . The cloud exchange is has has a track record of what is the present cost , demand pattern , and available cloud provider , and this information is periodically reform by the cloud coordinator .

2. Cloud Coordinator

The cloud coordinator assigns the resources of the cloud to the remote users based on the quality of service they demand and the credits they have in the cloud bank. The cloud enterprises and their membership are managed by the cloud controller.

3. Cloud Broker

The cloud broker is interacts interact with the cloud coordinator , analyze the service – level agreement and the resource offer by several cloud provider in cloud exchange . Cloud broker is finalizes finalize the most suitable deal for their client .

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property of Federated Cloud :

1. In the federated cloud, the users can interact with the architecture either centrally or in a decentralized manner. In centralized interaction, the user interacts with a broker to mediate between them and the organization. Decentralized interaction permits the user to interact directly with the clouds in the federation.
2. Federated cloud can be practiced with various niches like commercial and non-commercial.
3. The visibility of a federated cloud assists the user to interpret the organization of several clouds in the federated environment.
4. Federated cloud can be monitored in two ways. MaaS (Monitoring as a Service) provides information that aids in tracking contracted services to the user. Global monitoring aids in maintaining the federated cloud.
5. The providers who participate in the federation publish their offers to a central entity. The user interacts with this central entity to verify the prices and propose an offer.
6. The marketing objects like infrastructure, software, and platform have to pass through federation when consumed in the federated cloud.

benefit of Federated Cloud :

1. It is minimizes minimize the consumption of energy .
2. It is increases increase reliability .
3. It minimizes the time and cost of providers due to dynamic scalability.
4. It is connects connect various cloud service provider globally . The providers is buy may buy and sell service on demand .
5. It is provides provide easy scaling up of resource .

Challenges in Federated Cloud:

1. In cloud federation, it is common to have more than one provider for processing the incoming demands. In such cases, there must be a scheme needed to distribute the incoming demands equally among the cloud service providers.
2. The increasing requests in cloud federation have resulted in more heterogeneous infrastructure, making interoperability an area of concern. It becomes a challenge for cloud users to select relevant cloud service providers and therefore, it ties them to a particular cloud service provider.
3. A federated cloud means constructing a seamless cloud environment that can interact with people, different devices, several application interfaces, and other entities.

Federated Cloud technologies:

The technologies that aid the cloud federation and cloud services are:

1. OpenNebula

It is a cloud computing platform for managing heterogeneous distributed data center infrastructures. It can use the resources of its interoperability, leveraging existing information technology assets, protecting the deals, and adding the application programming interface (API).

2 . Aneka coordinator  

The Aneka coordinator is a proposition of the Aneka services and Aneka peer components (network architectures) which give the cloud ability and performance to interact with other cloud services.

3. Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus is defines define the pool computational , storage , and network resource that can be measure scale up or down as application workload change in the utilization of the software . It is is is an open – source framework that perform the storage , network , and many other computational resource to access the cloud environment .