Computer MeteorologyMonitoring Compute Clouds.PDF

Computer Meteorology: Monitoring Compute Clouds ´ Lionel Litty H. Andres Lagar-Cavilla David Lie Dept. of Computer Science Dept. of Elec. and Comp. Eng. University of Toronto University of Toronto Abstract unique security challenges for cloud providers. Most im- portantly, the provider needs to guarantee isolation be- Cloud computing environments allow customers to ex- tween customers. This means that a malicious customer ecute arbitrary code on hardware owned by a cloud should not only be unable to access information about provider. While cloud providers use virtualization to en- other customers, she should also be unable to affect the sure isolation between customers, they face additional performance of other customers. This is the guarantee security challenges. Malicious customers may leverage virtual machine monitors aim to provide. the provider’s hardware to launch attacks, either from While cloud providers can rely on a properly designed VMs they own or by compromising VMs from benign virtual machine monitor to isolate VMs from one an- customers. These attacks can damage the provider’s rep-