Towards verified cloud computing environments

As the usage of the cloud becomes pervasive in our lives, it is needed to ensure the reliability, safety and security of cloud environments. In this paper we study a usual software stack of a cloud environment from the perspective of formal verification. This software stack ranges from applications to the hypervisor. We argue that most of the layers could be practically formally verified, even if the work to verify all levels is huge.

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