Cloud Service Compliance Control Component
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Solution Overview
Problem
In the context of cloud computing, managing compliance across diverse services and vendors in a hybrid cloud environment is challenging due to the difficulty in enforcing common standards and policies, especially given the variety of service owners and the need for ensuring security, safety, operability, and serviceability.
Innovation Solution
A compliance management system is introduced that extracts metadata from service contracts, compiles it into a control component, and integrates it with services to audit and enforce compliance through various lifecycle stages, using a service contract manifest that can be translated into machine-readable parameters and machine-executable code for continuous monitoring and reporting.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual compliance monitoring is used across diverse cloud services, then flexibility in service implementation is maintained, but compliance consistency and enforcement reliability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces control points as intermediary components that mediate between service contracts and service implementations. These control points extract metadata from service contracts, translate it into machine-readable parameters, and enforce compliance automatically without requiring complex manual monitoring of each diverse service, thus improving reliability while managing complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms compliance requirements from abstract contractual terms into concrete machine-executable parameters and code. By changing the parameter representation from human-readable text to machine-readable format, the system enables automated enforcement across diverse services, improving compliance reliability without proportionally increasing management complexity.
2Measurement precision
If automated control points are integrated into all services, then compliance monitoring precision is improved, but service deployment complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary extraction of compliance metadata from service contracts before service deployment. Control points are configured in advance with translated machine-readable parameters, enabling automated compliance monitoring from the outset without adding complexity during actual service deployment and implementation phases.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates machine-readable copies of compliance requirements from human-readable service contracts. By copying and translating the essential compliance parameters into executable format, the system achieves precise automated monitoring while keeping the original service deployment process relatively simple, as the control points operate as separate enforcement layers.
3Reliability
If comprehensive service contract metadata is extracted and enforced, then compliance coverage is improved, but processing time and operational overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the essential compliance metadata from comprehensive service contracts, separating critical enforceable parameters from other contractual information. This selective extraction maintains comprehensive compliance coverage by focusing on key requirements while reducing processing time by excluding non-essential contract details from the automated enforcement process.
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AI summary
The present embodiment may include a computing system that may extract a plurality of metadata from a service contract (human readable document) that was signed between the cloud infrastructure provider and a service owner before the service is deployed on the service delivery system of the cloud infrastructure provider. The present embodiment may compile the plurality of metadata into a control component that is an executable program that may be compiled with the service and adopted for auditing and enforcing the service contract of the service. The present embodiment may cause the service owner to compile the service with the control component, where the control component enabling auditing and enforcing the service contract signed for the service and monitors the service at runtime for compliance with the service contract.