Storage as a Service (STaaS) Security Challenges and Solutions in Cloud Computing Environment: An Evaluation Review

Cloud Computing is an emerging technology which aims to provide efficient access to remote and distributed resources with the help of cloud services providers such as Amazon Googles Application, Microsoft Azure. Storage as a Service (STaaS) is among the most important and popular kind of services being investigated in the Cloud computing community to serve both private users and business enterprise with remote and scalable data storage that can be charged per customer usage. Providing safety, privacy and availability for the data that is hosted in cloud are the major concerns for users and businesses. This survey presents the data storage security concerns that arise due to the nature of cloud computing like multi-tenancy and virtualization, in addition to the details of the recent solutions presented in the literature to overcome the security issues in cloud storage.