ABSTRACT
Cloud computing and big data services like Amazon S3 [AMAZ] are gaining a lot of popularity because of factors such as cost efficiency and ease of maintenance. Cloud computing paradigm is becoming increasingly important in today's world. This chapter assesses the feasibility of using S3 storage services for storing semantic web data using the Intelligence Community's Blackbook system. It describes the design and implementation of a secure information integration framework that uses Blackbook. Blackbook allows data integration from various data sources. The chapter also describes techniques to protect our data by encrypting it before storing on cloud computing servers like Amazon S3. Economic advantage is one of the main motivations behind the cloud computing paradigm, since it promises the reduction of capital expenditure and operational expenditure. The chapter provides some interesting insights about how privacy issues should be taken into consideration when designing cloud computing services.
