ABSTRACT Over the last few years, cloud computing has emerged as the best option for offering various applications. It can supply databases, web services, processing, storage, development platforms, and web services to help businesses swiftly expand their infrastructure and service offerings. However, massive amounts of data will severely burden the cloud computing environment. Due to this, load‐balanced task scheduling has remained a crucial aspect of resource distribution from a data center, ensuring that each virtual machine (VM) has a balanced load to fulfill its full potential. Overloading or underloading a host or server can cause issues with processing speed or even cause a system crash. To prevent this, we need an intelligent way to schedule tasks. Therefore, the hybrid optimization algorithm called gazelle coati optimization algorithm (GCOA) is introduced in this paper to schedule tasks in a cloud environment. This algorithm integrates the coati optimization algorithm (COA) and the gazelle optimization algorithm (GOA) to enhance the GOA's exploitation process. The main objective of this hybrid approach is to optimize scheduling, maximize VM throughput and resource utilization, and establish load balancing between VMs based on makespan, energy, and cost. The performance assessment of the proposed approach is conducted on two real‐world workloads, such as Google Cloud Jobs (GoCJ) and the heterogeneous computing scheduling problems (HCSP) datasets, using several performance metrics, and the results are compared with the previous scheduling and load balancing methods. The experiment results show that the suggested strategy produced significant gains in makespan, energy, cost, resource utilization, and throughput—up to 10% and 60%, respectively—making it appropriate for real‐world cloud infrastructures.
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