The evolution of Cloud computing makes the major changes in computing world as with the assistance of basic cloud computing
service models like SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS
an organization achieves their business goal with minimum effort as compared to
traditional computing environment. On the other hand security of the data in the cloud database server is the key area of con
cern
in the acceptance of cloud. It requires a ver
y high degree of privacy and authentication. To protect the data in cloud database
server cryptography is one of the important methods. Cryptography provides various symmetric and asymmetric algorithms to
secure the data. This paper presents the symmetric
cryptographic algorithm named as AES (Advanced Encryption Standard). It is
based on several substitutions, permutation and transformation.