Cloud Computing Architecture: A Critical Analysis

Cloud computing has evolved to emerge the most topical IT paradigm in recent times. Cloud computing is rapidly transforming the IT landscape. On a pay-as-you-use basis, cloud consumers can access resources, applications and infrastructure provided by cloud providers. Such access could be in form of applications already deployed by cloud providers for use by the cloud users. It could be in form of the capability to develop and deploy user applications using services of a cloud provider. In addition, massive storage infrastructure is available for database and data supplied by the user. The cloud has several unique architectures and many more are still evolving. The primary ones are the SaaS, PaaS and the IaaS that can be deployed on private, public, community and hybrid clouds. This paper examines present developments in the cloud computing architecture and presents guidance for additional research. Papers published in journals, conferences, white papers were analyzed. The objective of this present work is to identify, examine and explain the current trends and development in cloud computing architecture. However, only 13% of the papers examined discussed Others-as-a-Service, while only 26% of the papers reviewed considered issues relating to the major actors involved in cloud computing. This will beneficial to cloud providers, users, and researchers alike

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