Cloudspecs: Cloud Hardware Evolution Through the Looking Glass

URL	Branch	Description
https://cloudspecs.fyi	main	Including latest instance types
https://tum-dis.github.io/cloudspecs	cidr2026	Frozen database state for reproducibility of our CIDR 2026 paper

Paper

Cloudspecs was accepted at the CIDR 2026 conference. You can find a preprint of our paper here. If you find Cloudspecs or our analysis useful for your research, please consider citing:

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/cidr/SteinertKL26,
  author       = {Till Steinert and
                  Maximilian Kuschewski and
                  Viktor Leis},
  title        = {Cloudspecs: Cloud Hardware Evolution Through the Looking Glass},
  booktitle    = {{CIDR}},
  publisher    = {www.cidrdb.org},
  year         = {2026}
}

Installation

You can run also run Cloudspecs locally by cloning this repository. We use npm for package management and vite for serving the website.
Install required packages:

npm i

Start a development server:

npm run dev

You can access your local deployment at http://localhost:5173/

Custom Reproducibility Sites

You can use the Cloudspecs framework to create custom reproducibility sites for your own papers by forking this repository and replacing Cloudspecs with your own database. You'll probably want to replace/adapt the following files:

• static/cloudspecs.duckdb
• static/sample-queries.json
• components/db.js
• vite.config.js

Cloudspecs does not require a web server and can be hosted e.g., on GitHub Pages. We also provide a LaTex package (in the latex folder) that showcases creating clickable figures that reference your reproducibility site from within your paper.