Right-sizing Recommendations (RSR): Cloud Workload Conformal Prediction for Virtual Machines in Data Center Operations

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云基础设施管理迎来新突破！一项来自arXiv的最新研究提出AI驱动的“精准推荐”方案，能像天气预报一样提前预测云服务器的工作负载，帮数据中心自动选择最合适的虚拟机规格，避免资源浪费或性能不足。通俗来说，大型云平台里的虚拟机就像不断变动的房间，传统分配方式常导致“大房间住小用户”或“小房间挤爆系统”。研究人员用机器学习分析海量历史数据，找到不同应用的使用规律，再通过一种叫“自助式符合预测”的技术，生成更可靠的未来需求区间。这相当于给云平台装上了智能顾问，能提前几周甚至几个月给出调整建议，让资源分配始终保持在最经济、最顺畅的状态。这项技术对普通人最直接的影响是：云服务商（如你常用的网盘、视频平台）能更高效地利用硬件，运营成本降低后，可能会转变成更便宜的订阅费或更稳定的服务体验。而企业用户则能省下巨额IT开支，把资金投入到更好的产品研发上。虽然普通人看不见后台的虚拟机，但每个流畅的在线操作背后，都有这类AI在默默优化着数字世界的运行效率。

arXiv:2607.24773v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Managing cloud infrastructure efficiently, especially in environments of large cloud providers or hyperscalers, requires optimizing the use of physical resources to minimize costs and maximize performance. Selecting the right virtual machine (VM) sizes is crucial to achieving cost efficiency in these dynamic environments. However, traditional VM allocation and scheduling approaches often fail to account for the fluctuating and unpredictable nature of VM utilization, leading to inefficiencies such as over- or under-provisioning of resources. High-quality interval prediction helps accurately capture uncertainty in cloud resource demand and supports cloud operators in efficient instance provisioning. As an effective and reliable framework for constructing prediction intervals (PIs), conformal prediction (CP) is used for mid- and long-term forecasting tasks in cloud computing environments. This study proposes a new data-driven PI construction approach using bootstrapping conformal prediction for modern, dynamic, data-driven Right-sizing Recommendations (RSR) to enhance provisioning for diverse application workloads on hyperscalers. By learning workload utilization patterns, identifying correlations across multiple time series, and predicting medium- to long-term utilization trends, this research seeks to improve the efficiency of cloud and data center operations through an AI/ML-based provisioning pipeline. Our study demonstrates that AI-driven models, powered by machine learning regression techniques and evaluated using backtesting, achieve promising forecasting results for cloud resource utilization. Additionally, we rank the selected models to identify top-performing approaches for long-life VM candidates. The proposed framework enhances right-sizing recommendations and supports more cost-effective resource allocation in dynamic cloud environments.