Cloud Computing Services and Security Challenges: A Review

Abstract

An architecture of computing that provides services over the internet on the demand and desires of users that pay for the accessible resources that are shared is refer as the cloud computing. These resources are shared over the cloud and users do not have to acquire them physically. Some of the shared resources are: software, hardware, networks, services, applications and servers. Almost every industry from hospitals to education is moving towards the cloud for storage of data because of managing the effective cost and time of organizing the resources physically on their space. Storage of data over the data centers provided in the form of clouds is the key service of the cloud computing. Users store their desired data on clouds that are publicly available over the internet and away from their boundaries in cost effective manner. Therefore, techniques like encryption is used for obscuring the user’s information before uploading or storing to the shared cloud devices. The main aim of the techniques is to provide security to the data of users from unauthorized and malicious intrusions.