IEEE CLOUD 2025 invites researchers, practitioners, and innovators to submit original papers addressing all aspects of cloud computing infrastructure, technologies, applications, and business innovations. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following.

Cloud Architecture and Infrastructure

       Data center architectures
       Virtualization and multi-tenancy
       Cloud storage
       Cloud-native programming models
      (serverless, microservices, service mesh, etc.)
       Software-based networking technologies (SDN, NFV)
       Multi-cloud and cloud federation environments
       Private and hybrid cloud environments
       Edge and fog computing infrastructure

Cloud Management and Operation

       Performance monitoring and optimization
       Fault tolerance, high availability, and reliability
       Resource allocation and scheduling
       Load balancing and automated scaling
       Cost optimization strategies
       DevOps, CI/CD, IaC and cloud automation
       Optimizing AI workloads on heterogeneous infrastructure
       Optimizing heterogeneous infrastructure for AI workloads

Sustainable Cloud Computing

       Carbon footprint measurement for hardware and software systems
       Carbon-aware and grid-aware system management
       Sustainable data center design
       Sustainable software development practices for cloud services
       Energy-efficient service architectures
       Green cloud architectures and solutions

Cloud Security and Privacy

       Trusted environments and Zero trust architectures
       Identity and access management, authorization, and authentication
       Assurance, audit, certification, regulatory compliance
       Privacy-aware and cross-data center data management

Cloud Computing in Emerging Technologies

       AI and ML in cloud environments
       Edge intelligence & AI analytics at the edge
       IoT cloud platforms
       Digital twins & metaverse Applications
       Quantum computing integration
       5G/6G and cloud integration
       Blockchain in cloud services

Cloud Economics

       Strategies for enterprise business transformation
       Cloud Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
       Economic and business models for XaaS (including RoI analysis)
       Economic models for AI cloud deployments
       Adaptive pricing strategies
       Cross-cloud market mechanisms