A survey on cloud computing resource allocation techniques

Cloud Computing is a type of computing which can be considered as a new era of computing. Cloud can be considered as a rapidly emerging new paradigm for delivering computing as a utility. In cloud computing various cloud consumers demand variety of services as per their dynamically changing needs. So it is the job of cloud computing to avail all the demanded services to the cloud consumers. But due to the availability of finite resources it is very difficult for cloud providers to provide all the demanded services. From the cloud providers' perspective cloud resources must be allocated in a fair manner. So, it's a vital issue to meet cloud consumers' QoS requirements and satisfaction. This paper mainly addresses key performance issues, challenges and techniques for resource allocation in cloud computing. It also focuses on the key issues related to these existing resource allocation techniques and summarizes them.