Authentication and Integration of Cloud Storage Services

In this Information age, the volume of data dealt everyday is enormous already, and is still growing. This has led to the development of various cloud storage services that help users store and manage the data with ease. So, it is natural that a user s data stored across multiple accounts in various cloud services, bringing with it the overhead of maintaining these accounts. Therefore, there is a need for unifying these accounts into a single module to help the user access them easily. The paper aims to solve this problem by integrating many of these services into a single cloud service. The service can be authenticated by the user only once. To access the files a tabbed view of all the services is being provided. The use of REST (Representational State Transfer) APIs of all the services to retrieve and list the files, is integral to the working of the module. The OAuth 2.0 protocol, which is the current industry standard, is followed to authenticate all of the services. The idea helps in managing various cloud platforms within a single unit. The access and management of projects is easier, since the integration of various cloud services is scalable.