[1] As of 2022, he is distinguished professor and director of the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory at the University of Melbourne.
[2] He was made a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2015[3] for contributions to cloud computing.
[4] He published Content Delivery Networks (with Athena I. Vakali and Mukaddim Pathan, Springer, 2008).
In 2017, Buyya won the Scopus Excellence in Innovative Research Award.
[1] In 2021, Buyya was included in a list of 40 researchers regarded as lifetime achievers in their fields published by The Australian.