Cloud computing,is an evolving computing trend which permits users to avail various services remotely through internet. This new technique changes the direction at which the various resources could be utilized for their business by the different caters users in the current trend. It embraces unique feature such as multitenancy,elasticity and virtualization at different level brings forth the security and privacy challenges for the user’s information caused by sharing of resources between multiple cloud tenants. With the intention of protecting the user’s valuable information,several access control schemes were studied and novel techniques were proposed. The broad coverage needs to be done with respect to access control solutions for cloud environment due to the heterogeneousnature of cloud users demanding for varying degree of security level. In this article,the comparative studies are performed for recent access control mechanisms ina cloud environment,its merits and demerits have pointed out and the future direction towards the access control solutions and conclusion are provided. © 2016,International Journal of Pharmacy and Technology. All rights reserved.