- Cloud architecture uses simple APIs to provide easily accessible services to the user through the internet medium. 

- It provides scale on demand feature to increase the industrial strength. 

- It provides the transparency between the machines so that users don’t have to worry about their data. Users can just perform the functionality without even knowing the complex logics implemented in cloud architecture.

- It provides highest optimization and utilization in the cloud platform

Cloud architecture provide large pool of dynamic resources that can be accessed any time whenever there is a requirement, which is not being given by the traditional architecture. In traditional architecture it is not possible to dynamically associate a machine with the rising demand of infrastructure and the services. Cloud architecture provides scalable properties to meet the high demand of infrastructure and provide on-demand access to the user.

It depends on the type of business that demands a cloud setup. Suppose if the subscription on a public cloud for an application that is to be deployed on OS images is proving to be more costly then to buy some new datacenters and maintain them. Then obviously the a private cloud has to be setup instead of a public cloud. This public clouds follow utility billing methodology as electricity bill for example.

The hypervisor is a virtual machine monitor (VMM) that manages resources for virtual machines. The name hypervisor is suggested as it is a supervisory tool for the virtual machines. There are mainly two types of hypervisors :

- Type-1: the guest Vm runs directly over the host hardware, e.g Xen, Hyper-V, VmWare ESXi

- Type-2: the guest Vm runs over hardware through a host OS, e.g Kvm, Oracle virtualbox

Cloud computing architecture consists of many layers which help it to be more organized and can be managed from one place. The layers are as follows:

1. Cloud controller or CLC is the top most level in the hirerachy which is used to manage the virtualized resources like servers, network and storage with the user APIs. 

2. Walrus is used for the storage and act as a storage controller to manage the demands of the users. It maintains a scalable approach to control the virtual machine images and user data.

3. Cluster Controller or CC is used to control all the virtual machines for executions the virtual machines are stored on the nodes and manages the virtual networking between Virtual machines and external users.

4. Storage Controller or SC provides a storage area in block form that are dynamically attached by Virtual machines. 

5. Node Controller or NC is at the lowest level and provides the functionality of a hypervisor that controls the VMs activities, which includes execution, management and termination of many instances.

Eucalyptus stands for “Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs to Useful Systems” and provides an open source software infrastructure to implement clusters in cloud computing platform. It is used to build private, public and hybrid clouds. It can also produce your own datacenter into a private cloud and allow you to extend the functionality to many other organizations. Eucalyptus provides APIs to be used with the web services to cope up with the demand of resources used in the private clouds.

Cloud computing platform has various databases that are in support. The open source databases that are developed to support it is as follows:

- MongoDB: is an open source database system which is schema free and document oriented database. It is written in C++ and provides tables and high storage space. 

- CouchDB: is an open source database system based on Apache server and used to store the data efficiently

- LucidDB: is the database made in Java/C++ for data warehousing. It provides features and functionalities to maintain data warehouse.

The security laws which are implements to secure data in the cloud are as follows:

- Input validation : controls the input data which is being to any system.

- Processing  : control that the data is being processed correctly and completely in an application.

- File : control the data being manipulated in any type of file.

- Output reconciliation : control the data that has to be reconciled from input to output.

- Backup and recovery: control the security breaches logs and the problems which has occurred while creating the back.