A Review of Cloud Services and Characteristics of Cloud Computing and its Security Mechanism

Exploring the Growth and Impact of Cloud Computing

Abstract

Cloud computing is a fast developing industry, with widespread adoption among bothconsumers businesses. Cloud computing's popularity has skyrocketed since its inception, which canbe traced back to the early days of grid utility computing. The convenience of being able to accessdata from any location at any time is a major selling point of cloud computing. Email clients like Hotmail Gmail, document editors like Google Docs, program creators like Google App Engine, cloud storagesolutions like Amazon S3, Google Drive, Windows SkyDrive all see heavy usage. In the early days ofthe Cloud, Amazon EC2S3 was one of the initial widely adopted services. Data sharing is madepossible via cloud computing, which can increase the user's efficiency and output.