Abstract
Cloud service providers (CSPs) like Amazon Web Services, Google Engine, and Microsoft Azure have the major share in providing cloud-related services globally. Their user-friendly approach to provide Infrastructure, Platform, and Software-as-a-Service encourages many industries to switch to virtual mode with high availability, low maintenance, and deployment cost using cloud computing. In this paper, the main focus is on infrastructure-related services. For hosting the web applications, a user requires a virtual machine using the Infrastructure-as-a-Service model of CSPs. The creation of a single instance on servers is effortless. But the process of creating more than 100 machines, deploying one at a time, can be time-consuming, tedious, and error-prone. Though many CSPs have already included services for the creation and management of multiple virtual machines, a novel model named Secure Virtual Infrastructure Model (SViM) is proposed to enhance the service quality, accessibility, and usability of the IaaS cloud. It can add functionality to the existing process of creating multiple virtual machines by CSPs. In this model, a new cryptography technique is also proposed to exchange data between client and virtual servers. For the implementation of the proposed framework, a cloud simulator, Cloudsim, is used.
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Varshney, K., Ujjwal, R.L. Novel framework for secured bulk creation of virtual machine in IaaS platform. Software Qual J 30, 513–549 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11219-021-09573-y
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