Security of Cloud FPGAs: A Survey
It addresses security concerns for cloud providers and users adopting FPGA technology, but is incremental as it is a survey rather than new research.
This paper surveys the security implications of integrating FPGAs into cloud computing platforms, identifying key issues and future challenges as the technology is still in its early stages.
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.