Security of Cloud FPGAs: A Survey

TL;DR

This survey reviews the emerging security challenges of integrating FPGAs into cloud computing platforms, highlighting current issues and future research directions in cloud FPGA security.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of security issues in cloud FPGA technology, which is still in its early stages of development.

Findings

Identifies key security vulnerabilities in cloud FPGA systems

Highlights the lack of standardized security protocols for cloud FPGAs

Outlines future research challenges in securing cloud FPGA environments

Abstract

Integrating Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) with cloud computing instances is a rapidly emerging trend on commercial cloud computing platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Huawei cloud, and Alibaba cloud. Cloud FPGAs allow cloud users to build hardware accelerators to speed up the computation in the cloud. However, since the cloud FPGA technology is still in its infancy, the security implications of this integration of FPGAs in the cloud are not clear. In this paper, we survey the emerging field of cloud FPGA security, providing a comprehensive overview of the security issues related to cloud FPGAs, and highlighting future challenges in this research area.