The 2013 IEEE Latin America Conference on Cloud Computing and Communications (LatinCloud 2013) is the second edition of a conference that quickly has become the premier forum for discussions of recent advances in cloud computing and communications, virtualization, utility computing, grid computing, service-oriented architectures and software-defined networks for the datacenter in this world region". The Cloud Computing and communications paradigm has defined unprecedented business models, promoting on-demand computing resource allocation, elastic scaling, and elimination of up-front costs. Capitalizing on paradigms such as virtualization, utility computing, grid computing, and service oriented architectures, cloud computing and communications has already changed the way we compute and communicate.