AWS Cloud Computing

Topic: - Security with AWS Cloud computing

Abstract

Data Security has been a major issue in the field of Information Technology. In the Cloud computing environment, it even becomes particularly a very serious issue because the data is in different locations or destinations all over the world. Information security and its privacy protection are the two important factors of the user’s concern about the cloud technology. Cloud services Amazon Web Services such as Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud and Storage 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. This paper explores the general security risks associated with using virtual server images from the public catalogs of cloud service providers. We investigate in detail the security problems of public images that are available on the Amazon EC2 service. We describe the design and implementation of an automated system that we used to instantiate and analyze the security of public AMIs on the Amazon EC2 platform and provide detailed descriptions of the security tests that we performed on each image. Also, other features of the AWS and its security issues will be briefly discussed in this paper.