How are HPC, Edge and Serverless Architectures Built in the Cloud Continuum? An empirical analysis of cloud architectures in AWS

We study a recently published dataset of 396 real-world cloud architectures on AWS from a wide range of industries. We focus on those architectures that contain HPC, edge or serverless components and investigate how they are built, which services they use, the types of storage used, quantify architectural complexity, assess the use of machine learning services, and distill insights regarding how cloud applications in these three domains are being built in the cloud continuum. Our data and analysis can be valuable for researchers and practitioners seeking to build and optimize cloud architectures and to help guide new research.

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˜The œInternational journal of networked and distributed computing
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2026-09-05
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s44227-026-00121-3
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Cloud Computing and Resource Management
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How are HPC, Edge and Serverless Architectures Built in the Cloud Continuum? An empirical analysis of cloud architectures in AWS

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˜The œInternational journal of networked and distributed computing
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How are HPC, Edge and Serverless Architectures Built in the Cloud Continuum? An empirical analysis of cloud architectures in AWS

Cristina L. Abad, Steven Santillan
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We study a recently published dataset of 396 real-world cloud architectures on AWS from a wide range of industries. We focus on those architectures that contain HPC, edge or serverless components and investigate how they are built, which services they use, the types of storage used, quantify architectural complexity, assess the use of machine learning services, and distill insights regarding how cloud applications in these three domains are being built in the cloud continuum. Our data and analysis can be valuable for researchers and practitioners seeking to build and optimize cloud architectures and to help guide new research.

˜The œInternational journal of networked and distributed computing
Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral (EC)
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Cloud Computing and Resource Management
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