Abstract
Conference Title: 2016 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) Conference Start Date: 2016, Sept. 5 Conference End Date: 2016, Sept. 9 Conference Location: Paphos, Cyprus Cloud service behavior mainly in dependability terms is nowadays a highly requested feature since cloud environments are failure prone. As a matter of fact, cloud consumers are more reluctant for cloud adoption given the dramatic impacts of failures in these environments. In order to convince cloud consumers with the fulfillment of the promised dependability rates, we need to assure dependability differently to the traditional way where the main focus is on the Infrastructure as a Service or IaaS and for the cloud provider side only. Therefore, we present in this paper a model based on The Open Group Architecture Framework or TOGAF, that assures dependability in all cloud services by taking into consideration various cloud actors and through integrating its mechanisms in distinct dimensions.