Auditing and Monitoring of Virtual Machine Instances of Cloud

The cloud computing is next generation architecture of an IT industry which provides services on demand through Internet. In contrast to the traditional approach where services are under proper physical, logical and personal controls cloud computing moves application, software and database to the large data centre where the management of the data and services may not be fully trust worthy as customer are not allowed to monitor the under-laying physical infrastructure. As cloud infrastructure span across the world, it is necessary for the data owners to track the location of server where the data actually resides as well as raise a notification when someone try to access the data. Hear we find possibilities of research work to develop an effective auditing and monitoring system for cloud users. It will help users to track the location of server in case of server crash down and process migration and also help to secure the user data by keeping data in secure premises.