Prevention of DDoS Attacks and Detection on Cloud Environment—A Review and Survey

Cloud computing has raised a revolution in IT technology that offers accessible, virtualized on-demand resources to the clients with more flexibility, less need for maintenance, and decreased infrastructure expenses. These resources are administered by diverse management firms and delivered through the Internet using acknowledged networking practices, standards, and layouts. The fundamental technologies and legacy practices have bugs and susceptibilities that can bring opportunities for interference by the attackers. The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are quite frequent that impose severe harm and shake the cloud’s performance. This paper will provide an overview of the DDoS attacks and discourse on the prevention and detection of DDoS attacks with respect to cloud environment.