Research on trust issues in cloud computing

Abstract

Although cloud computing has some eminent advantages such as low cost, resource elasticity, yet the highly dynamic, distributed and opaque nature of cloud services makes it a meaningful challenge to establish and manage trust between cloud service providers and consumers. Based on this background, this paper first describes the common concepts and classifications of trust issues and trust models, then generalize trust issues in cloud computing based on the research of existing work, next enumerates typical trust evaluation models from several different perspectives in cloud computing. Finally, conclusions including several potential trends are proposed for the future work.