International Conference in Recent Trends in Information Technology and Computer Science (ICRTITCS - 2012) Proceedings published in International Journal of Computer Applications® (IJCA) (0975 – 8887) 15 Fuzzy Metering-A New Dimension for Cloud Computing Suvarna Patil Dhanashri Sahasrabuddhe Ravindra Mudholkar Dept. of Computer Studies Dept. of Computer Studies Department of Electronics BVDU,IMRDA BVDU,IMRDA Shivaji University Sangli,India Sangli,India Kolhapur,India ABSTRACT Cloud computing provides the facility to access shared resources and common infrastructure. It offers services on demand over the network to perform operations that meet changing business needs. A huge investment may be required for a company to enter in to the new business. While the traditional IT procurement process has long been based on making large initial purchases of hardware, software, and services. The company may not have an idea about the investment required for the computing resources. The proposed work adds a fuzzy dimension to the metering system of cloud resources. It will help the company to know about their cost model, so that company can make a financial arrangement to start the new business. Keywords AWS(Amazon Web Service), Cloud Computing, Fuzzy Metering 1. INTRODUCTION John McCarthy opined in the 1960s that "computation may someday be organized as a public utility‖. This public utility, named as cloud technology, was firstly introduced by the Amazon, who has made the test version of its Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) public, right after 46 years of the statement by the John McCarthy.The basic idea behind cloud is sharing the resources instead of making investment. With a subscription based model companies can start small, with virtually no up-front costs, and then scale up as business needs dictate. This makes Cloud Computing an attractive option for company who are focused on financial predictability and project accountability. The ability to pay as you go minimizes both implementation and financial risks because customers can both scale based on results and ensure that vendors are held accountable throughout the entire implementation and support lifecycle. Furthermore, the lack of a large upfront investment also prevents the client from being locked into any single technology or vendor. With today's economy being unpredictable, may make the difference between surviving the next economic crisis and closing the doors forever. With the lack of an upfront investment, and the ability to scale as needs dictate, Cloud Computing gives company the advanced technology they desire without parting with the capital that they need to comfortably conduct day to day operations. 2. LITERATURE REVIEW IT is an always happening field, where we can always see the arrival of new technologies. After grid the new technology was introduced - CLOUD COMPUTING. Al bento and Regina bento [1] have given detail introduction about Cloud Computing. The architectural details and the comparision [2] with other technology are briefed by Srinivasa Rao V,Nageswara Rao N K, E Kusuma Kumari. The technology has certain advantages and also the challenges, they are discussed by Liladhar R. Rewatkar and Ujwal A. Lanjewar [3]. Balvinder Singh and Priya Nain in [4] talks about the problem of bottleneck in Cloud Computing. They have revealed the negative side of the cloud implementation. Moreover because of the advantages cloud technology has gained popularity. Karamjit Singh, Isha Kharbanda, Navdeep Kaur have discussed about data security issues and solution of cryptography in [5]. Rana Majumdar, Satyanarayana Garimella in [6] put a light on present view of the futuristic stance of Cloud computing. 3. CLOUD COMPUTING The term cloud computing can also be used as synonym for utility computing which can be explained as utilizing the various resources like CPU time, processor, data storage, bandwidth. The origin of the term cloud computing is obscure, but it appears to derive from the practice of using drawings of stylized clouds to denote networks in diagrams of computing and communications systems. Cloud service provider offers services on demand over the network to perform operations that meet changing business needs. Users of Cloud Computing do not "touch" the Cloud, which is housed in data centers and server farms located in far-flung places. The location of physical resources and devices being accessed are typically not known to the end user. It also provides facilities for users to develop, deploy and manage their applications ‗on the cloud‘, which entails virtualization of resources which maintains and manages itself. The fig. 1 shows general implementation of Cloud. Fig 1 Implementation of Cloud The services provided by cloud can be accessed from any type of node, with minimum computing capacity, having internet connectivity. The ubiquitous availability of high-capacity networks, low-cost computers and storage devices as well as