Enhancing Trust in The Cloud: A New Reputation-Based Model Outperforms Existing Solutions

The proliferation of cloud computing presents a significant challenge for enterprises: entrusting mission-critical data to remote service providers. The widespread adoption of cloud services is fundamentally hampered by a lack of robust and reliable trust evaluation mechanisms. To address this critical obstacle, this paper introduces a novel reputation-based trust model designed to accurately assess the trustworthiness of Cloud Service Providers (CSPs). Our proposed model uniquely integrates three key metrics: direct customer feedback, historical server rejection rates, and real-time server workload. A specialized trust evaluation algorithm processes these inputs to generate a comprehensive reputation score. Experimental results validate the efficacy of our approach, demonstrating a more efficient and accurate evaluation of CSP trustworthiness compared to existing models.