Cost-effective and responsible use of cloud computing resources (CCR) is on the business agenda of many companies. Despite this strategic goal, two geopolitical strategy decisions mainly influence the continuous existence of overcapacity: Europe's General Data Protection Regulation and the US's Cloud Act. Given the circumstances, a typical data center produces approximately 30% overcapacity annually. This overcapacity has severe environmental and economic consequences. Our work addresses this overcapacity by proposing a multi-sided platform for CCR trading. We initiate our research by conducting a literature review to explore the existing body of knowledge which indicates a lack of recent and evaluated platform design knowledge for CCR trading. We address this research gap by deriving design requirements and design principles. We instantiate and evaluate the design knowledge in a respective platform framework. Thus, we contribute to research and practice by deriving and evaluating design knowledge and proposing a platform framework.

翻译：云计算资源（CCR）的经济高效且负责任的使用是许多公司的商业议程重点。尽管有此战略目标，两个地缘政治决策主要影响了产能过剩的持续存在：欧盟的《通用数据保护条例》和美国的《云法案》。在此背景下，典型的数据中心每年约产生30%的产能过剩。这种产能过剩会带来严重的环境与经济后果。我们的研究通过提出一个面向CCR交易的多边平台来应对这一产能过剩问题。我们首先开展文献综述，以探索现有知识体系，结果表明目前缺乏针对CCR交易的近期且经过评估的平台设计知识。我们通过推导设计需求和设计原则来填补这一研究空白。我们在相应的平台框架中实例化并评估了这些设计知识。因此，我们通过推导和评估设计知识并提议一个平台框架，为研究与实践做出了贡献。