Cloud Computing Architecture: A Survey and Research Directions

Abstract

Cloud computing is a revolutionary technology that provides services on demand as pay per use basis. No need to concern about infrastructure and frameworkby the users as resources can be accessed from cloud according to requirements. Various cloud service providers for providing resources areAmazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM, Hewlerr Packard, Yahoo, and Rackspace [1]. This paper gives introductionof cloud computing, features of cloud computing, architecture, deployment model and various recent research challenges.