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The recent concept of cloud computing has completely replaced the limitation of infrastructure and increased the capacity of companies whether it is small company or the bigger one. Companies need not to have the expensive IT infrastructure or not to invest for maintenance procedure. As per the survey of TechRepublic, around 70% of the companies are using cloud services or planning to use it. Businesses can move their most of the services to the cloud and can easily manage them. There is no headache for scaling up the infrastructure in case of the business expansion. The lesser prices available for cloud computing services have motivated the companies to adapt it. Hence, even smaller companies are able to access tools that were beyond the reach previously. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, Microsoft, and Alibaba are the biggest providers of cloud computing services in the market. As per the available models of cloud computing like Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing is gaining popularity and it will be one of the major elements in the next decade. According to the latest report of Forrester says that the cloud market will touch $411 billion by the year 2022. Additionally report says that the four leading vendors of cloud will produce 75% of the whole $75.4 billion cloud infrastructure market [19].