Shattering the Ephemeral Storage Cost Barrier for Data-Intensive Serverless Workflows
Serverless computing enables developers to deploy applications as workflows of functions that invoke one another, with cloud providers handling autoscaling and routing. However, serverless platforms lack efficient mechanisms for cross-function data transfers, which hinders the performance of data-intensive applications. Current solutions rely on intermediary services like AWS S3 or ElastiCache(EC), leading to significant cost inefficiencies---storage costs can account for 24-99% of the total execution bill.
Authors
- Boris Grot (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6525-0762)
- Michal Michal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9002-6911)
- Mert Bora Alper (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0236-6722)
- Edouard Bugnion (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7237-6929)
- Marios Kogias (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-7034-5284)
- Rustem Feyzkhanov
- Dmitrii Ustiugov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3156-010X)
- Shyam Jesalpura
Institutions
- Imperial College London (GB)
- University of Edinburgh (GB)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-03-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3721465.3721866
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Distributed systems and fault tolerance
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.49