A Survey on Cloud Computing Security Issues

Cloud computing is changing businesses and governments. It offers flexible computation resources in a model where customers only pay for resources they use. This leads to cost savings when compared to a situation where organizations manage their own server farms. Very often such servers are running at a very low utilization level, which is partly because of old habits that lead to not placing more than one server on a single physical server. The benefits of cloud computing are many, but it also introduces new issues regarding security. Often customers feel like they are giving up the control over their data when they make the move to cloud. For the same reason many organizations are yet to make the move. This paper is a survey to some of the most recognized and feared issues in cloud security and also aims to bring forward current solutions for those security issues, or ways to mitigate the risks of making the move to the cloud.