Cloud Computing Infrastructure Security: Challenges and Solutions

Cloud computing market has been growing with its largest over the last two years. Many businesses and education systems moved to the Cloud to support remote work and learning respectively during the COVID time. As data and applications are being migrated outside the enterprise administrative domain to the Cloud, various security challenges should be known to the consumer and the provider. This paper discusses the cloud data center building blocks and surveys the current threats, vulnerabilities, and defense mechanisms at the physical, virtual, orchestration, and application programming interfaces to enable the cloud computing infrastructure as a service.