Cross-Cloud Service Broker for Multi-Provider Resource Provisioning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cloud environments are closed ecosystems, restricting customers to using only the services offered by a specific cloud service provider, making it difficult for customers to access services from different providers.
Innovation Solution
The proposed solution involves techniques for provisioning and managing resources within a cloud infrastructure of one cloud service provider to support services offered by another cloud service provider, including establishing network connectivity and provisioning virtual machines.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a cloud environment provides a closed ecosystem for its subscribing customers, then the cloud service provider can maintain control and security over its infrastructure, but customers are restricted to using only the services offered by that specific cloud service provider
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a cross-cloud service broker as an intermediary component that mediates between the customer's cloud environment and external cloud services. This broker establishes network connectivity prerequisites, provisions resources in remote cloud environments, and manages the integration between different cloud ecosystems, thereby enabling multi-provider service access while maintaining system control and security
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the cross-cloud provisioning process into distinct functional components: the service broker in the home cloud environment, network connectivity management, resource provisioning in the remote cloud, and service integration layers. This segmentation allows each component to handle specific tasks independently, reducing overall system complexity while enabling versatile service access
2Ease of operation
If network connectivity prerequisites are established between private clouds from different cloud service providers, then seamless service access across cloud environments is enabled, but the provisioning process complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The service broker performs preliminary actions by pre-establishing network connectivity prerequisites and pre-configuring resource provisioning templates before actual service requests are made. Network connectivity rules, authentication mechanisms, and resource allocation policies are prepared in advance, enabling rapid service deployment when customers need to access external cloud services
3Adaptability or versatility
If a customer subscribes to services from multiple cloud service providers, then service versatility increases, but managing resources across different cloud environments becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The service broker implements universal resource management capabilities that can handle multiple cloud service providers through a single interface. It provides multi-functional operations including network connectivity management, resource provisioning, service deployment, and resource orchestration that work across different cloud environments (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.), thereby enabling versatile multi-provider access while maintaining uniform management complexity
Data Source
AI summary
Techniques are disclosed for provisioning and managing resources within a cloud infrastructure of a first cloud service provider for a cloud service offered by a second cloud service provider. Cross-cloud services can be provisioned and managed by and between private clouds of cloud service providers. The techniques include receiving a request for a cloud service by a component of a first private cloud within a first cloud environment and from a component of a second private cloud within a second cloud environment. The techniques further include the component of the first private cloud performing one or more operations to establish network connectivity prerequisites for network connectivity between the first private cloud and the second private cloud and causing one or more components of the first private cloud to provision the cloud service in the second private cloud.