Cloud Tenancy Metadata for Multi-Provider Isolation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current cloud infrastructure environments face challenges in efficiently managing and isolating different types of tenancies, leading to complexities in resource allocation, security, and billing within a shared cloud infrastructure environment.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a cloud infrastructure environment that supports multiple tenancy types, including cloud provider, cloud reseller, and customer organization tenancies, with metadata indicating tenancy types, and utilizing private label cloud environments to provide secure and isolated partitions for tenants, enabling them to create, manage, and administer their resources.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a shared cloud infrastructure environment is used to host multiple tenants, then resource utilization and scalability are improved, but security isolation and management complexity deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements multi-tenancy by segmenting the cloud infrastructure into isolated virtual environments where each tenant operates independently. Virtualization technology divides physical resources into multiple virtual instances, ensuring security isolation while maintaining efficient resource utilization across the shared infrastructure.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple tenancy types are supported in a cloud environment, then versatility and customer accommodation are improved, but system complexity and management overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal cloud platform that supports multiple tenancy types (public, private, hybrid, community) through a common infrastructure. The system uses standardized virtualization mechanisms and policy-based management to handle different tenancy requirements uniformly, reducing management complexity while maintaining versatility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements dynamic tenancy management where the cloud environment can adaptively allocate resources and apply policies based on the specific tenancy type. The system dynamically adjusts isolation levels, resource allocation strategies, and security policies according to whether the tenant is public, private, hybrid, or community-based.
3Reliability
If strict isolation is implemented for each tenancy, then security is improved, but resource sharing efficiency and scalability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces virtualization technology as an intermediary layer between physical infrastructure and tenants. This virtualization layer provides security isolation through virtual boundaries while simultaneously enabling efficient resource sharing by allowing multiple virtual instances to access underlying physical resources concurrently with proper resource allocation and scheduling.
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AI summary
Techniques for implementing tenancies in a cloud computing environment are disclosed. A set of tenancies is implemented, with the tenancies having a type attribute in metadata indicating that the tenancies are associated with a cloud provider. Another set of tenancies is implemented, the tenancies having a type attribute in the metadata indicating that the tenancies are associated with a cloud reseller. An additional set of tenancies is implemented with a type attribute in the metadata, indicating that the tenancies are associated with customer organizations.