Security and Privacy of AWS S3 and Azure Blob Storage Services

Many users around the world use cloud-computing services, and cloud services providers such as Amazon, Microsoft and Google. One of the commonly used services is the storage service. The service allows users to store and retrieve data online from any location. However remotely stored data that is maintained by a service provider raises concerns related to the security and privacy of the data. This paper compares the security and privacy of Amazon AWS S3 and Microsoft Azure Blob. The comparison will focus on their security and privacy compliance programs and how the access control behaves on securing the user's data.