HotCloudPerf'26 Workshop Chairs' Welcome

The HotCloudPerf workshop proposes a meeting venue for academics and practitioners---from experts to trainees---in the field of Cloud computing performance. The new understanding of Cloud computing covers the full computing continuum from data centers to edge to IoT sensors and devices. The workshop aims to engage this community and lead to the development of new methodological aspects for gaining a deeper understanding not only of cloud performance, but also of cloud operation and behavior, through diverse quantitative evaluation tools, including benchmarks, metrics, and workload generators. The workshop focuses on novel cloud properties such as elasticity, performance isolation, dependability, and other non-functional system properties, in addition to classical performance-related metrics such as response time, throughput, scalability, and efficiency. HotCloudPerf 2026, co-located with the 17th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2026), is held on May 5th, 2026.