Abstract
In recent years, cloud services are emerging popular among the public and business ventures. Most of companies are trusting on cloud computing technology for production tasks. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is a major general and critical type of attack on the cloud that proved extremely damaging the services. In current years, several efforts have been taken to identify the numerous types of DDoS attacks. This paper explains the various types of DDoS attack and its consequence in cloud computing. Also, this paper provides the various impacts of DDoS attack on cloud environment. The main goal of this paper is to discuss about prevention, detection and mitigation approaches of DDoS attacks on cloud environment with strengths, challenges and limitations of each approach. So that researchers can gets completely novel intuitive understanding into how to alleviate DDoS attacks in the field of cloud computing.