How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Trust the Cloud

Companies and individuals are understandably worried about entrusting their precious body of data and processing to the cloud. After all, cloud services appear to be complex black-boxes operated in unknown ways by a third party. And, when a major outage hits the front page of the papers, one cannot help but worry.

In this talk, I argue that we can make cloud services highly trustworthy both by extending the limits of fault tolerance techniques and by designing systems to support end-to-end correctness checks. Better still, cloud providers are in a unique position to protect their customers from a range of threats. We, as researchers, should further explore these opportunities that will arise as we stop worrying and trust the cloud.