• muthu dayalan

Cloud security is an evolving technological paradigm that has several tremendous momenta in the technological and cloud data worlds. The importance of cloud computing security has been identified mainly as protection of data security of an organization. The architecture of cloud computing which involves the IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS whose cloud security architecture differ for the three-cloud computing architecture. Amazon utilizes the AWS while Microsoft utilizes Azure cloud computing approach. In this paper, an analysis on how the different features of the two cloud computing technologies for the two giants. Differences and similarities in computing, network, and storage features are provided. The strengths of Microsoft Azure in relation to AWS are also heighted. The paper concludes with a summary of the potential security threats in cloud security.

cloud computing, data integrity, web services, NoSQL, servers, encryption, virtual machines, AWS, Azure, Cloud security.

"Microsoft and Amazon: A Comparison of Approaches to Cloud Security", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.182-186, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904C28.pdf

"Microsoft and Amazon: A Comparison of Approaches to Cloud Security", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp182-186, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904C28.pdf