SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTION OF CLOUD SERVICE PROVIDERS IN A MULTI-CLOUD

This disclosure relates generally to selection of cloud service providers in a multi-cloud. The selection of cloud service providers (CSPs) in a multi-cloud environment is challenging as it depends on multiple criteria such as security, usability, latency, and service cost. In an embodiment, for each CSP and multi-CSP combination, two decision problems are solved, namely, a VM selection problem and a cloud region selection problem, taking latency requirement and DR laws constraints into consideration. By solving the VM selection and CC selection problems, the service cost and the user to cloud region mapping are estimated. Using said estimates and other qualitative criteria, a multi-cloud multi-criteria decision problem is solved using MCDM techniques to rank the CSP combinations for each application. Based on the ranks and a constraint on a service cost of the entity one of a CSP and a CSP combination is selected for each application.