Cloud infrastructure is an evolving technology
that offers organizations and enterprises the ability to access
various elastic and scalable resources. The cloud provider offers
application software that can be implemented by multiple users
online. Also, the customer is provided with the capability of
creating and deploying custom built applications relevant to the
needs of the enterprise. In addition, scalable and elastic massive
storage and computing resources is available in the different
categories of cloud types. The decision for an organisation or
enterprise to migrate and outsource applications to the cloud
requires trust. Any customer wanting to adopt the cloud wants
to be sure that the cloud provider can be trusted to meet agreed
requirements. This study was executed by means of review of
some literature available on cloud computing and trust
management. The results indicated that users are not able to
access services on their own terms, clearly eroding trust. In
addition, application of encipherment in trust management was
not discussed in details. Criteria for identifying quality cloud
providers received less than 30% attention. Mechanisms for
auditability and transparency which should have been given
over 50% consideration, received less than 20%. This results
will be beneficial to cloud service providers, cloud users and
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