  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.
