An Survey on Cloud Computing and its Security Issues

Abstract

Cloud computing is the most discussed technology in today era. Now a day it uses major role in IT. It is used for fast operation in business activities, educational purpose, and banking and even in health care department. Cloud computing refers to applications and services offered over internet on -demand. Peoples are moving towards cloud massively but due to some of its unaddressed security issues they are questioning about it . In this paper we will discuss important features and characteristics of cloud computing and also how it work over internet. We also investigated the different security issues and provide appropriate solutions. In future there is a lot to do regarding cloud security.

Key Words: Cloud Computing, Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Cloud Security.