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Hence, this paper argues for location independent tenant costs in datacenters. We show how a change in today\u2019s IaaS offerings, coupled with a simple pricing scheme, can achieve this. We discuss how such a pricing model can be implemented and show that the consequent increase in system throughput can lead to a win-win situation\u2013 tenant costs are location independent and lower while provider revenue increases too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .asset-content --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The performance and cost for tenants in today\u2019s datacenters depends on the location of their virtual machines within the datacenter. However, a tenant\u2019s location is a knob for the provider and is of no interest to the tenant. Hence, this paper argues for location independent tenant costs in datacenters. 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