Secured Service Provider selection methods in Cloud

Abstract

Cloud computing is an important trend and experienced exponential growth over the last few years. Almost sixty percent of current small-to-medium businesses (SMB) use cloud services. The growth is only expected to increase over the next few years. However, the control of data over the cloud is less for the customers. Hence we lack in trust management which is near about two percentages of the total services provided. Prefer a cloud service provider among numerous vendors based on qualitative and quantitative manner is a challenge for the cloud customer. This paper on the theme of brief examine in existing models which are used for cloud service provider selection in cloud environment and we analysed the criteria which can be improved to provide the best selection.