Design and development of an automated cloud broker for recommending trustworthy services

Abstract

There are several public Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) across the globe supplying a variety of application, platform, middleware, database, and infrastructure services. The brewing challenge before any cloud user is how to be sure about the trustworthiness of a service being offered by various CSPs. With the overwhelming usage of cloud services by individuals and organizations, this problem has acquired a lot of attention these days. Precisely arriving and articulating that this particular service from a specific CSP is trustworthy and it is becoming complicated because of many moving variables in this whole phenomenon. There are varying parameters and indicators for decisively proving that a particular service is trustworthy or not. In order to meet up this crucial challenge and concern being widely expressed by cloud customers, researchers and cloud professionals across the world have unearthed a few viable mechanisms. The cloud brokerage service is an application that aids in providing solutions for this problem. It recommends suitable cloud service providers to the end users depending on their relevant requirements. The Internet provides access to a wide variety of cloud brokers. As a result, choosing a cloud broker or service provider is both time-consuming and tedious. It is now becoming a necessity to choose a proper cloud brokerage service based on trust. newline