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Firstly, this is a cost-effective solution to service providers and customers. Secondly, for every job, virtual machine (VM) creations are avoided to reduce brokerage. The allocation, creation or selection of resources of VM is carried out by broker. The main objective is to maximize the resource utilization and minimize brokerage in cloud computing by using Multi-Objective Optimization (MOO). It considered a multi-attribute approach as it has more than two objectives. Likewise, CMRBC implements efficient resource allocation to reduce the usage cost of resources. 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