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