A Review on Cloud Computing: threats, issues and the factors influencing its acceptance in businesses

Due to the increasing use of cloud computing in organizations as well as in everyday life, in this article we have tried to provide a comprehensive review of the research literature and update the threats and challenges. The amount of research conducted on the above topics is from the years ۲۰۱۷ to ۲۰۲۲. In this review, we aim to determine the most discussed topics along with relevant theories, as well as the factors that influence small and medium enterprises' adoption of cloud computing. This paper provides an investigation of ۲۷ conference papers, articles, review papers, and books from popular publications like Springer, Elsevier, IEEE, EDP Sciences, and Journals. The synthesized outcome of the literature identifies benefits, responsibilities, threats, classification of cloud security issues and factors influencing the decision and adoption of cloud computing in Small and Medium Enterprises that can help researchers better understand the elements of cloud computing and in line with new research and discovery of factors take a new step. Findings in this study indicate that influential factors such as "cost" and "flexibility" can be applied to multiple benefits of cloud computing, both tangible and intangible. To facilitate the business aspect of cloud computing, researchers can address gaps in policy, risks, and service models. SME s' cloud computing adoption can be guided by the insights found in this study into cloud computing services explored, and other key research issues concerning cloud computing adoption in SMEs that will guide future research.

Keywords:

Cloud computing , cloud computing threats and issues , Cloud Computing adoption , SMEs.