Intelligently suggesting computing resources to computer network users

A computer program product for improving resource performance in a hybrid cloud environment, wherein the hybrid cloud environment comprises multiple cloud systems, each of which comprises at least one resource that utilizes an application, wherein the application of a resource of the at least one resource is executed on a cloud system of a user, and the cloud system being a cloud system of the multiple cloud systems of the hybrid cloud environment, the computer program product comprising:

• a computer-readable storage structured to store machine readable computer code;
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• computer code stored on the storage medium;
• wherein the computer code includes program instructions and data for causing the processor(s) set to perform operations including at least the following:
• monitoring performance of the application for a user to determine a base performance of the resource of the at least one resource on the cloud system;
• running the application with an additional resource of the at least one resource to determine an additional base performance of the additional resource, the additional base performance being determined on a shadow cloud system of the multiple systems, wherein the additional base performance of the additional resource, at least in part, defines a performance gain of the additional resource on the shadow cloud system;
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• notifying the user of the performance gain of the additional resource on the cloud system, and upselling the additional resource to the user for enhanced performance of the application.

A method comprising:

• receiving, from a first user, by a computing resources service provider and over a communication network, a request to perform a first set of computer work;
• responsive to receipt of the request, determining, by the computing resources service provider, a first set of network implemented computing resource(s) (NICR(s)) to be used to perform the first set of computer work on behalf of the first user, based on a service plan of the first user
• responsive to receipt of the request, performing, by the computing resources service provider, the first set of computer work, on behalf of the first user, on the first set of NICR(s);
• generating, by the first computing resources service provider, a first performance data set including information indicating a set of performance value(s) that characterize quality and/or price of the performance of the first set of computer work on the first set of NICR(s);
• performing, by the computing resources service provider, the first set of computer work on a second set of NICR(s), with the second set of NICR(s) being different than the first set of NICR(s);
• generating, by the first computing resources service provider, a second performance data set including information indicating a set of performance value(s) that characterize quality and/or price of the performance of the first set of computer work on the second set of NICR(s);
• determining, by the first computing resources service provider, that the quality and/or price of performing the first set of computer work on the first set of NICR(s) is different than the quality and/or price of performing the first set of computer work on the second set of NICR(s);
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• responsive to the determination that the quality and/or price is different, taking, by the first computing resources service provider, a responsive action regarding the service plan of the first user.