Cloud computing has started to gain acceptance for adoption and
implementation among organizations, however, this new technology area has already
started to deal with security, performance, and availability challenges. Within Cloud
Security issues being paramount for corporates, and private enterprises, the denial of
service attacks are rated as the highest priority threat to the cloud environments. This
chapter presents a review of the academic literature research work on the DDoS attack
on the Cloud, introduces a new DDoS Classification taxonomy, and proposes
parameters for determining an effective DDoS solution.
Keywords: Cloud Computing, Cloud Security, DoS, DDoS, Distributed Denial of Service, ICMP Flood.