
Currently, cloud services are rapidly developing and are becoming more widely used. One of their most important attributes is availability that determines the need for research in this area. In the past, dozens of publications focused on the availability of cloud services. However, some of them provide only qualitative consideration, others do not consider whole infrastructure of cloud services from end to end. This paper clarifies the definition of service availability and gives quantitative evaluation of end-to-end availability of cloud services for typical situations taking into account all components of the service infrastructure. It shows that achieving high availability requires redundancy for such components as network connections and data centers.
| selected citations These citations are derived from selected sources. This is an alternative to the "Influence" indicator, which also reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically). | 8 | |
| popularity This indicator reflects the "current" impact/attention (the "hype") of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network. | Top 10% | |
| influence This indicator reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically). | Top 10% | |
| impulse This indicator reflects the initial momentum of an article directly after its publication, based on the underlying citation network. | Average |
