A Comparative analysis of security issues & vulnerabilities of leading Cloud Service Providers and in-house University Cloud platform for hosting E-Educational applications

Cloud technology provides several advantages to users, including quick and simple deployment methods, lower costs, uninterrupted resource availability, scalability and elasticity, and the capacity to rapidly adapt to the needs of IT industries. Students and teachers can benefit from the capabilities provided by this kind of design since it permits them to use the electronic environment in a dynamic and interactive learning, teaching, and evaluation process. Employee data is stored in the cloud by 48% of educational institutes, and student data is stored in the cloud by 30%. In 2020, the majority of educational institutes (60%) and account compromise (33%) were victims of phishing attempts. According to Gartner, more than 95% security faults in the cloud are due to the customers. He also discussed that security is an expensive investment that not everyone can make. Data security, specifically confidentiality, integrity, and availability, is one of the most critical issues for cloud providers. If no specific security measures are installed, more frequent cyber-attacks might cause severe material damage. The aim of this work is to deploy e-educational application on cloud for automation of University academic activities over leading cloud providers like GCP or AWS and using in house cloud data center. Also, using the real-time experimental setup, conduct a comparative analysis of security concerns and vulnerabilities. Security is critical to the successful migration and adoption of cloud technology in the educational sector, according to the research.