Engine Hosting Solution for Cloud Provisioning Consistency

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face challenges in seamlessly utilizing different provisioning engines across various resource provider environments due to differences in plugins, security levels, and functionality, which limits their ability to maintain a consistent interactive experience.

Innovation Solution

An engine-agnostic engine hosting solution that allows users to select and utilize various provisioning engines, providing a control service with overlay APIs to interact with the selected engine, and managing infrastructure definitions to conform to standard formats, while retrieving plugins and features based on user instructions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If users utilize different provisioning engines based on personal preferences across various resource provider environments, then user choice and customization are improved, but consistency in engine capabilities and interactive experience deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser choice of provisioning engineVSAvoidconsistency of engine capabilities

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an engine hosting service as an intermediary layer between users and provisioning engines. This service provides a standardized interface and abstraction layer that allows users to select different provisioning engines while maintaining consistent interaction patterns. The engine hosting service manages the diversity of engines behind a unified facade, resolving the contradiction between user choice and capability consistency.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The engine hosting service is designed with universal functionality to support multiple provisioning engines through a common interface. It provides standardized operations, plugin management, and interaction patterns that work across different engine types, enabling users to access diverse engines while experiencing consistent behavior and capabilities.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Adaptability or versatility

If users utilize different provisioning engines with different plugins and security levels, then engine functionality and customization are improved, but operational complexity and compatibility issues worsen

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveprovisioning engine functionalityVSAvoidoperational complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The engine hosting service acts as a mediator that manages plugin compatibility and security configurations across different provisioning engines. It provides a unified plugin interface, handles security level standardization, and resolves compatibility issues between engines and plugins, thereby reducing operational complexity while preserving engine functionality.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system standardizes operational parameters, security levels, and plugin interfaces through the engine hosting service. By normalizing these parameters across different engines, the service maintains engine-specific functionality while presenting a consistent operational interface, thus reducing complexity without sacrificing versatility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

3Ease of operation

If a standardized interface is provided for multiple provisioning engines, then ease of operation and consistency are improved, but engine-specific capabilities and customization options may be limited

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveconsistent interactive environmentVSAvoidengine-specific capabilities

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The engine hosting service segments functionality into two layers: a standardized interface layer for consistent operations and an engine-specific layer for specialized capabilities. This segmentation allows users to access common functions through a uniform interface while still enabling access to engine-specific features when needed, resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and adaptability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The standardized interface is nested within the engine hosting service, which in turn nests multiple provisioning engines. This nested structure allows the standardized interface to provide consistency while the underlying engines retain their specific capabilities. The hosting service acts as a container that preserves both the uniform interface and the diverse engine functionalities.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

Data Source

PatentUS11579901B1Provisioning engine hosting solution for a cloud orchestration environment

Publication Date: 2023.02.14 AMAZON TECH INC

AI summary

Systems and methods provide for execution of different provisioning engines within a resource provider environment. A user may submit a request to provision one or more resources using a particular provisioning engine, which may include a provisioning engine that is non-native to the resource provider environment. A control plane may evaluate and transmit requests to the provisioning engine executing within the resource provider environment. Operations associated with the provisioning engine may be executed and stored within a data store, which may be processed upon completion and made accessible.