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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2017
Filed:
May. 04, 2014
Gravitant, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Ilyas Iyoob, Austin, TX (US);
Manish Mahesh Modh, Cedar Park, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method of implementing comparison of cloud service provider package offerings comprises a plurality of operations. An operation of creating a cloud services architecture specification defining a cloud infrastructure that supports deployment of an application thereto is performed. An operation of determining a cloud services offering price for each one of the plurality of cloud service offerings to characterize implementation of the cloud infrastructure using cloud services thereof on a basis of pricing of such cloud services is performed. Determining the cloud services offering price for a particular one of the cloud service offerings includes mapping the cloud services architecture specification to cloud service pricing information for the particular one of the cloud service offerings.