IJIRCSTJournal International Journal of Innovative Research in Computer Science and Technology I S Volume 12 Issue 3 Computer Science English May - June 2024 N N Y 2024 05 24 Computer Sciences Securing the Skies- A Critical Analysis of Cloud Infrastructure Vulnerabilities English Y 87 95 Vaishnavi Chaudhari English Y Poonam Dhake English N Snehal Salunkhe English N Mahendra Suryavanshi English N https://doi.org/10.55524/ijircst.2024.12.3.14 Cloud computing offers storage, infrastructure, computing, networking, databases, platform, software, and analytics services over the Internet. It provides numerous benefits including scalability, cost management, broad access to resources, elasticity, resource pooling. Though cloud computing is mature and widely adopted computing model in software as well as non-software industries, it has several issues regarding security as it provides most of the cloud services over the public infrastructure. Denial of service (DOS), malware injection, insecure APIs, data loss, data breaches, hypervisor vulnerabilities, VM escape are a few major issues in cloud computing. In this paper, authors tried to provide a comprehensive analysis of critical security issues in cloud computing. Furthermore, this paper critically analyses the existing solutions to the various security issues in the cloud computing model. English Cloud Security, Authentication, Access Control, Hypervisor, Data Breaches https://ijircst.org/abstract.php?article_id=1266