IEEE CLOUD is the flagship conference focusing on innovative cloud computing across all "as a service" categories (XaaS). This includes modeling, developing, publishing, monitoring, managing, delivering, and scaling XaaS offerings from the core to the edge. The conference is a prime international forum for researchers, academics, businesses, industry, and standard bodies to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of cloud computing, identify emerging research topics, and define the future of cloud computing.

IEEE CLOUD 2023 invites original papers addressing all aspects of cloud computing infrastructure, applications, and business innovations. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

Cloud & AI

    Use of AI to Improve Cloud Services & Operations
    Use of Cloud to Improve AI Research and Deployment
    Predictive Analysis and Federated Learning
    Anomaly Detection and Automation for Remediation & Mitigation
    Observability, Transparency and Reproducibility

Infrastructure

    Cloud Computing Systems and Architectures
    Edge Computing Systems and Architectures
    Cloud Storage and Data Architectures
    Cloud-centric Network Architectures (SDN, NFV, etc)
    Computing Continuum and Edge-Cloud-HPC federation 

Applications

    Large Scale Cloud Applications
    Edge Applications
    Microservice-based, Containerized, & Serverless Applications
    Digital Twins & Applications across Edge-Cloud-HPC Continuum

Cloud Management and Operations

    Hybrid-cloud Integration and Multi-cloud Environments
    Distributed and Parallel Query Processing
    Resource, Energy, Data Management
    Cloud Metering and Monitoring
    Containers, Serverless Computing
    Cloud Service Adaptation and Automation
    Cloud Federation, Service Composition
    Sustainable Cloud Computing

Cloud Security

    Confidential Cloud Computing and Trusted Cloud Environments
    Access Control, Authorization, Authentication
    Assurance, Audit, Certification, Compliance
    Fault Tolerance, High Availability, Reliability
    Privacy-aware Data Management
    Cloud Applications of Distributed Ledger Technologies

Cloud Economics

    Cloud Strategy for Enterprise Business Transformation
    Cloud Service Level Agreement (SLAs)
    Economics and Business Models for XaaS
    Cloud Quality Management
    Cloud ROI Analysis, Cost and Pricing

Cloud as a Service

    Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
    Platform as a Service (PaaS)
    Function as a Service (FaaS)
    Software as a Service (SaaS)
    Network / Storage as a Service