Protecting Cloud Computing Against DDoS Attacks

In recent years, there have been increasing DDoS attacks on cloud computing. Cloud computing is used to store data through the Internet. In this, the users store data virtually rather than storing the data in large number of hard discs, or USBs. There are various platforms in the cloud such as Amazon, Google Cloud and Azure. We have used Azure to check the DDoS configuration. To detect the attacks, we have used random forest algorithm which gives us the maximum accuracy when compared to other algorithms. The main motivation of this paper is to make people aware of how DDoS attack is going to be performed and detected in cloud. Finally, mitigations are also suggested.