Your company is evaluating the option of renting some of its computing services from a cloud provider. After many discussions, your company is considering renting only the accounting module. Your supervisor has asked you to develop, as soon as possible, a short document about how this type of service is provided by a cloud computing provider and the necessary steps that should be taken to implement this service. (Q6.4, 6.5)

Your report to your supervisor would include:

1. The problems with and opportunities for cloud migration

2. The risk associated with using a cloud accounting system

3. How important is the reliability of the service provider (for example Amazon.com)?

4. Issues associated with cloud service interruption

Migrating into cloud is considered a project and like all IT technologies should go through all phases of systems development life cycle.

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aNSWER The possible risks associated with cloud migration If your application stores and retrieves very sensitive data you might not be able to maintain it in the cloud Similarly compliance requiremen... View the full answer