Towards Trusted Cloud Computing
Nuno M. Santos, Krishna P. Gummadi, Rodrigo Rodrigues · 2009
Cloud computing infrastructures enable companies to cut costs by outsourcing computations on-demand. How-ever, clients of cloud computing services currently have no means of verifying the confidentiality and integrity of their data and computation. To address this problem we propose the design of a trusted cloud computing platform (TCCP). TCCP en-ables Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers such as Amazon EC2 to provide a closed box execution envi-ronment that guarantees confidential execution of guest virtual machines. Moreover, it allows users to attest to the IaaS provider and determine whether or not the ser-vice is secure before they launch their virtual machines. 1