DNS Security: Need and Role in the Context of Cloud Computing

Domain Name System is a component of the Internet Infrastructure shortly referred as DNS. DNS provides simple service for lookup and translation of URL into IP addresses and IP addresses into URL. However, due to the enormous scale of the Internet, the DNS also has grown tremendously, leading to security concerns stability and reliability. Cloud computing with its superior features of availability and reliability has emerged as the defacto infrastructure for DNS solutions Thereby enabling to provide DNS as a service. This paper is aimed at iterating the impact of cloud on DNS and its Security. It also discusses several advantages of cloud that make it a best choice for DNS. It also discusses about the current solutions being offered with DNS as a Service.