Towards a Security-Aware Benchmarking Framework for Function-as-a-Service
This addresses benchmarking difficulties for FaaS users, but it is incremental as it builds on existing cloud benchmarking concepts.
The paper tackles the challenge of benchmarking Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) applications in production-like environments, proposing an architectural design with metrics and exploring its use for identifying security vulnerabilities.
In a world, where complexity increases on a daily basis the Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) cloud model seams to take countermeasures. In comparison to other cloud models, the fast evolving FaaS increasingly abstracts the underlying infrastructure and refocuses on the application logic. This trend brings huge benefits in application and performance but comes with difficulties for benchmarking cloud applications. In this position paper, we present an initial investigation of benchmarking FaaS in close to reality production systems. Furthermore, we outline the architectural design including the necessary benchmarking metrics. We also discuss the possibility of using the proposed framework for identifying security vulnerabilities.