Cloud Computing, Security, and Privacy: An Amazon Report

This report delves into cloud computing, examining key terms like cloud computing and cloud storage, and their importance in modern organizations. It explores various cloud types, including private, public, community, and hybrid clouds, and their respective security considerations. The report uses Amazon as a case study to illustrate these concepts, highlighting the benefits of cloud computing such as cost reduction and improved efficiency. Furthermore, it differentiates between data privacy and security, outlining their objectives, programs, and principles. It also addresses the challenges of using cloud computing and suggests measures to ensure data protection, such as data encryption, strong passwords, and continuous system monitoring. The report concludes by summarizing the discussed topics and emphasizing the significance of cloud computing in today's digital landscape, and offers a comprehensive overview of the concepts discussed.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
L O 1................................................................................................................................................3
Key terms and considerations related with internet. ..................................................................3
L O 2................................................................................................................................................5
Security and Privacy while using Internet..................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Cloud computing refers to providing services of the company over the internet. Cloud
computing services can be divided into different categories such as Platform as a service,
Infrastructure as as service, software as a service etc. There are various features of cloud
computing such as the service of cloud computing is managed by the service provider. The
interest of people has increased in cloud computing due to improvement in the internet. The
Report will be based on Amazon. The company belongs to the industry of consumer electronics,
cloud computing, E-commerce etc. The key products and services offered by Amazon are
Amazon fire, Amazon.com etc. The Report will outline terms and considerations like cloud
computing related with internet. The Report will also describe the key difference between
security and privacy and the ways in which a company can secure its cloud.
MAIN BODY
L O 1
Key terms and considerations related with internet.
There are different terms and factors that are related with the use of internet in an
organisation. One of the important terms that is related with internet is Cloud computing and
cloud storage. They are as follows-
Cloud computing-
It refers to providing the facility of the resources related with computer system such as
storing data and computing power over the internet. In case of cloud computing, there is no
requirement of managing the data stored by the user. For example- Amazon has release one of its
product that is Elastic Compute Cloud related with cloud computing.
Cloud computing helps the company to share the resources so that, it will get the benefits of
economies of scale. In case of cloud computing all the services through hardware and software
are not required to be managed by the user of the services. Cloud computing helps Amazon to
run their applications in fast manner.
According to Rittinghouse, J.W. and Ransome, (2016) There are various benefits of using cloud
computing for providing services to the clients such as it requires less expenditure on
maintenance, improves management etc. There are various factors that leads to growth of cloud
computing such as virtualisation of hardware, utility computing etc.

There are various benefits that are provided by cloud computing for Amazon as well as to the
end customers. Such as there is no need of managing the computer resources by IT
administrators, there is no need for Amazon to invest huge amount on the infrastructure,
customers have to pay for the resources they are using.
Cloud storage-
Cloud storage is a type of model that helps the users to store data, manage data, and they
can also back up the data over the internet. The customers of Amazon will be required to pay on
the basis of consumption for the cloud storage they are utilizing.
According to Almorsy, Grundy, J. and Müller, (2016) Cloud storage is useful in many ways,
such as it helps the users in backup of data, protecting the data from negative effects etc. Various
customers are using cloud storage for reducing the cost of developing systems etc.
The market of cloud based storage is mainly dominated by Amazon Wen Services for offering
cloud storage based services to customers of the company.
Types of cloud-
On the basis of type of data there are various types of clouds that can be used by a company on
the basis of level of management and security required. They are as follows-
Private cloud-
Private cloud refers to the infrastructure of cloud computing that is available for a
particular customer. The data will be managed either by the user or by the company that is
providing private cloud services or by any third party. Private clouds require highest level of
security and controls.
The companies such as Amazon that are offering services of private cloud secures the
information by using corporate firewall The services of companies using private cloud can be
more expensive for the users(Ali, Khan, S.U. and Vasilakos, 2015). One of the best example of
the company which is providing facilities of private cloud is Amazon. The virtual private cloud
of Amazon provides services to the customers over virtual private cloud and the service is a part
of Amazon web services.
Public cloud-
The companies that are using Public cloud offers its services to the users over the
internet. The company that is using this type of cloud helps to meet out diverse needs of the
users. Such as

sharing the information etc. One of the best example of the company that is providing services
through public cloud is Amazon. The infrastructure of public cloud is available to every
customer of the company. Company that is providing services over public cloud is responsible
for managing the security of the data of users. Example- Amazon is providing public cloud
services through Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). It helps the users to control the
resources of computer and helps to minimise the cost and improve the performance.
Community cloud-
The infrastructure of community cloud is useful for different companies, customers to
achieve a common goal. The community cloud is managed by third party or by the company.
Hybrid cloud-
Hybrid cloud is a combination of private, public and community cloud. It helps to share
the information over internet as well as provide facility to store private information. Companies
host some applications to secure confidential information. Best example of hybrid cloud is
Storage gateway of Amazon web services. It helps to backup, disaster recovery, processing the
data etc.
L O 2
Security and Privacy while using Internet.
Security-
Security refers to the actions taken to protect data so that, it cannot be used by people that
are not authorized to use it such as hackers etc. Strict protocols helps to secure the data.
Therefore, individuals as well as companies should use password for protecting the confidential
data from unauthorized users.
Privacy-
Data privacy means putting restrictions on outsiders so that, they cannot view what is
going inside the organisation. This is known as privacy. It helps the companies to restrict the
access of outsiders to the confidential data(Rittinghouse, J.W. and Ransome, 2016).
Difference between privacy and security-
Heading Security Privacy
Objectives There are various objectives of
securing the data from
The main objective of privacy
is to protect the rights of

unauthorized use. Such as
integrity, confidentiality etc.
people or companies in respect
of confidential information.
Programs The programs related with
security means the protocols
and rules that are developed by
the company to protect
confidential resources.
Privacy programs refers to
passwords, credentials etc. for
protecting the confidential
information of the company.
Principles There are various important
principles of data security such
as ensuring the integrity of
data.
The main principle of data
privacy is making efforts for
achieving the security of
information.
Dependency Data of company can be
secured without making efforts
for ensuring data privacy.
To achieve privacy of data,
company have to make efforts
for securing the data.
Data privacy and security are important factors related with the technology of cloud computing
in companies, industry etc. There are various types of challenges that an organisation may have
to face while using cloud computing technology. Such as-
 Virtual data can be lost over the cloud.
 If a company is having large number of users of cloud computing the, the risk related
with data will be high.
 Application Programming Interfaces that are used by companies are also vulnerable to
risk due to the communication between different applications.
Companies can take various steps to ensure security and privacy of cloud computing. Such as-
 One of the way in which firms can protect data is by ensuring data encryption to protect
data from users as well as service providers(Ali, Khan, S.U. and Vasilakos, 2015).
 To protect the information from unauthorized users like hackers, the companies should
use strong passwords and change the passwords on regular basis. For example-Firms
should use antivirus system for protecting the information contain on cloud computing.
This will help the company to secure important data.

 Organisations should perform continuous monitoring of the system to identify the status
of operations. Companies should regularly update the system and identify new versions
of software to secure the information.

CONCLUSION
The above Report has described the term cloud computing, there are various terms related
with internet such as cloud computing, cloud storage etc. Cloud computing provides various
benefits like applications run in fast way to companies. Cloud storage also provide benefits of
data backup etc. The Report has explained various types of clouds like private, public,
community and hybrid cloud. Cloud computing provides high level of security to Amazon.
Further, the Report has outlined the difference between data privacy and data security. Also
described the difference between them on the basis of objectives, programs, principle etc.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals-
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