JOURNAL ARTICLE

A security analysis of amazon's elastic compute cloud service

Abstract

Cloud services such as Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud and IBM's SmartCloud are quickly changing the way organizations are dealing with IT infrastructures and are providing online services. Today, if an organization needs computing power, it can simply buy it online by instantiating a virtual server image on the cloud. Servers can be quickly launched and shut down via application programming interfaces, offering the user a greater flexibility compared to traditional server rooms.

Keywords:
Cloud computing Server Computer science IBM Flexibility (engineering) Amazon rainforest Service (business) Operating system Virtual machine Cloud computing security World Wide Web Computer security Distributed computing Business

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Citation History

Topics

Cloud Data Security Solutions
Physical Sciences →  Computer Science →  Information Systems
Security and Verification in Computing
Physical Sciences →  Computer Science →  Artificial Intelligence
Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
Physical Sciences →  Computer Science →  Signal Processing
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