Architectural Considerations for Addressing Federal Information Security Objectives in Public Cloud Computing Environments

The goal of this paper is to shed some light on how to address federal security concerns in mission-critical applications that will be deployed in a public cloud. To achieve this goal, this paper is organized as follows. First, we present an overview of cloud computing and we explain its different deployment and delivery models. We use Amazon Web Services - a major provider of cloud computing - to illustrate these concepts. Then, we will discuss the federal information security objectives and how they can be addressed in the cloud.