A collaborative monitoring mechanism for making a multitenant platform accountable

  • Authors:
  • Chen Wang;Ying Zhou

  • Affiliations:
  • CSIRO ICT Center, NSW, Australia;School of Information Technologies, The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia

  • Venue:
  • HotCloud'10 Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX conference on Hot topics in cloud computing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Multitenancy becomes common as an increasing amount of applications runs in clouds, however, the certainty of running applications in a fully controlled administrative domain is lost in the move. How to ensure that the data and business logic are handled faithfully becomes an issue. We propose to maintain a state machine outside of a multitenant platform to make the platform accountable in this paper. We give a mechanism to support accountability for a multitenant database with a centralized external service. We also describe how to implement a decentralized virtual accountability service via collaborative monitoring. Finally, we discuss the characteristics of the mechanism through experiments in Amazon EC2.