Cloud Systems and Applications: Report

Running head: CLOUD SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS
Cloud Systems and Applications: Report
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Answer to Question 1:................................................................................................................2
Answer to question 2:.................................................................................................................6
Answer to Question 2 (Learning outcomes 2, 5 and 6)..............................................................9
Application of System security in Cloud and distributed computing......................................10
a. Authorisation....................................................................................................................10
b. Privacy and mandatory access control policy..................................................................10
c. Authentication..................................................................................................................11
d. Acceptable Use.................................................................................................................11
Conclusion................................................................................................................................11
References................................................................................................................................13

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Introduction
The report is prepared for the selection of the storage option for an enterprise and
analysing which storage option can provide highest total bandwidth and the design feature
used for increasing the performance of the cloud platform. The report also discusses the
security of the system that are used for managing access rights of the people and improve the
security of the cloud platform. The virtualization technology is used for physical
characteristic masking of the computer resources for eliminating the complexity of the
resources such as applications and systems that are interacted by the end user. For enabling
distributed computing Grid Computing is applied such that the data transport and computers
can be accessed by the users without any concern of operating system, account administration
and location. The virtualization and grid computing can be combined with each other for
further improvement since some of the properties of virtualization and grid computing is
inherited by the cloud computing with its own characteristics and risks.
Answer to Question 1:
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) would be the easiest options for the traditional
enterprises. This is because the traditional enterprise can contract with the cloud service
providers are needed sign the contract immediately after analysing the legal and regulatory
requirements. Transparency and trust is maintained between the service provider and the
client and visibility is also present that helps in improving the transparency. Moreover
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) uses a simple interface for web service that can be
utilized for storing and retrieving any amount of data from remote location at any time. With
the use of the service the traditional enterprise can gain maximum benefit and scale improve
their current business process. Service oriented architecture is used for supporting the service
orientation and used for the development of the enterprise cloud solution (Zhang et al. 2017).

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Service is represented as a logical solution for the SOA and it is a demanding activity that
needs much resources and time and may end up in failure for the achievement of SOA. It can
also be used as a governance framework for the achievement of business value and benefits
for its successful implementation. It can be defined as a process and policy for ensuring that
the SOA properly works according to the requirement of the business and needs of the
people. Governance of cloud computing helps in facilitating transparent communication and
minimizes the risk of cloud computing. The standards of the cloud should be consistent,
complimentary and open such that it can eb adopted by the enterprise.
Figure 1: AWS (S3) workflow
(Source: Aws.amazon.com. 2019)
There are guides available that can eb used for understanding the usage of the server
and getting a quick hands on introduction of the service offered under it (Ren et al. 2017).
Adherence with the standards helps in enabling the defined principles and enforcement of
discipline for the organization. It is an open standards and helps in improving the
interoperability that is often required for the management of cloud computing environment.