%0 Journal Article %T A Brief Survey on Architecture, Challenges & Security Benefit in Cloud Computing %A Ajith Singh. N %A Vasanthi.V %A M. Hemalatha %J International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Research %D 2012 %I IRPN Publishers %X Cloud computing [1] is the emerging technology which emphasizes commercial computing. Cloud is a platform providing dynamic resource pools, virtualization & high availability [2]. It¡¯s the concept implemented to overcome our regular computing problem like hardware software resource availability and related aspects. Cloud computing makes it easy to have high performance computing. Cloud computing is a service which is easily available on market when you want it you can start the service and when you don't want you stop the service and you pay it for what you use, you need is a thin client or a laptop to access the internet. It's like prepaid taxi. Cloud computing is wild wild west, it¡¯s use world wide web to connect with cloud computing, user work with web based application it¡¯s acts like desktop program only. Users don¡¯t need to be IT programmer, a normal person will be able to use it and it¡¯s like setting our mobile profile. User has to do the same thing in cloud computing. The best example of cloud computing will be Google apps. With the new technology lots of security concern has came up. In this brief survey on architecture, challenges & security benefit in Cloud Computing we are going to discuss more on its security of cloud computing. %K Cloud Computing %K IAAS %K PAAS %K SAAS %K Google Apps %K Security %U http://esjournals.org/journaloftechnology/archive/vol2no2/vol2no2_2.pdf