Abstract

Cloud computing has been incorporated in almost every fold of customer's world today. As more challenging becomes the world of a resource consumer, so does the plethora of numerous cloud vendors. Every vendor tries to sell off their services with different attractions. Some of them are free, some as pay-as-you-go services and some at rented structures. With so many choices available to a random user, making the right choice about the type of vendor is a crucial decision. We present in this paper novel methods for cloud service selection. The methods derives from the traditional selection methods with emphasis on user criteria weights. Inherent comparisons have been conducted amongst the various methods to help in analyzing and finalizing a broker architecture for selection of the best service provider among the contending cloud vendors.