A Manifesto for Future Generation Cloud Computing: Research Directions for the Next Decade

TL;DR

This paper outlines future research directions for cloud computing, emphasizing emerging paradigms like serverless and IoT, and addressing challenges in scalability, security, and sustainability to shape next-generation cloud systems.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive manifesto identifying key open challenges and proposing research directions for advancing cloud computing in the next decade.

Findings

Identifies major open challenges in cloud computing.

Highlights emerging trends like serverless and IoT.

Proposes strategic research directions for future cloud systems.

Abstract

The Cloud computing paradigm has revolutionised the computer science horizon during the past decade and has enabled the emergence of computing as the fifth utility. It has captured significant attention of academia, industries, and government bodies. Now, it has emerged as the backbone of modern economy by offering subscription-based services anytime, anywhere following a pay-as-you-go model. This has instigated (1) shorter establishment times for start-ups, (2) creation of scalable global enterprise applications, (3) better cost-to-value associativity for scientific and high performance computing applications, and (4) different invocation/execution models for pervasive and ubiquitous applications. The recent technological developments and paradigms such as serverless computing, software-defined networking, Internet of Things, and processing at network edge are creating new opportunities for Cloud computing. However, they are also posing several new challenges and creating the need for new approaches and research strategies, as well as the re-evaluation of the models that were developed to address issues such as scalability, elasticity, reliability, security, sustainability, and application models. The proposed manifesto addresses them by identifying the major open challenges in Cloud computing, emerging trends, and impact areas. It then offers research directions for the next decade, thus helping in the realisation of Future Generation Cloud Computing.