Haryadi S. Gunawi and Thanh Do and Joseph M. Hellerstein and Ion Stoica and Dhruba Borthakur and Jesse Robbins

EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley

Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2011-87

July 28, 2011

http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2011/EECS-2011-87.pdf

Cloud computing is pervasive, but cloud service outages still take place. One might say that the computing forecast for tomorrow is "cloudy with a chance of failure." One main reason why major outages still occur is that there are many unknown large-scale failure scenarios in which recovery might fail. We propose a new type of cloud service, Failure as a Service (FaaS), which allows cloud services to routinely perform large-scale failure drills in real deployments.

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BibTeX citation:

@techreport{Gunawi:EECS-2011-87,
    Author= {Gunawi, Haryadi S. and Do, Thanh and Hellerstein, Joseph M. and Stoica, Ion and Borthakur, Dhruba and Robbins, Jesse},
    Title= {Failure as a Service (FaaS): A Cloud Service for Large-Scale, Online Failure Drills},
    Year= {2011},
    Month= {Jul},
    Url= {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2011/EECS-2011-87.html},
    Number= {UCB/EECS-2011-87},
    Abstract= {Cloud computing is pervasive, but cloud service outages
still take place.  One might say that the computing forecast
for tomorrow is "cloudy with a chance of failure."  One main
reason why major outages still occur is that there are many
unknown large-scale failure scenarios in which recovery
might fail.  We propose a new type of cloud service, Failure
as a Service (FaaS), which allows cloud services to
routinely perform large-scale failure drills in real
deployments.},
}

EndNote citation:

%0 Report
%A Gunawi, Haryadi S. 
%A Do, Thanh 
%A Hellerstein, Joseph M. 
%A Stoica, Ion 
%A Borthakur, Dhruba 
%A Robbins, Jesse 
%T Failure as a Service (FaaS): A Cloud Service for Large-Scale, Online Failure Drills
%I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley
%D 2011
%8 July 28
%@ UCB/EECS-2011-87
%U http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2011/EECS-2011-87.html
%F Gunawi:EECS-2011-87