Multi-Protectorate Cloud Architecture for Isolated Self-Service
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cloud systems face challenges in providing multi-instance architectures to smaller clients due to high management complexity, making them impractical, while multi-tenant architectures lack sufficient isolation and customization.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a multi-protectorate architecture that allows for self-registration and automation of new protectorates within an instanced cloud infrastructure, using a global domain with elevated permissions to manage sub-domains, and enabling data segregation and self-entitlement within client domains.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiinstance architecture is implemented, then isolation and customization are improved, but management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the multi-instance architecture into protectorates, which are isolated logical units that can be managed independently. Each protectorate represents a separate instance or tenant boundary, allowing fine-grained isolation while simplifying management through standardized protectorate templates and automated provisioning processes.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements self-service capabilities where clients can automatically provision, register, and manage their own protectorates without requiring extensive manual configuration. The system provides self-entitlement mechanisms and automated resource allocation, reducing the administrative overhead while maintaining strong isolation guarantees.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiinstance architecture is implemented, then customization is improved, but management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by allowing each protectorate to have customized configurations, resources, and settings tailored to specific client needs while maintaining the overall structured architecture. Each protectorate can be configured with different resource allocations, security policies, and operational parameters without affecting other protectorates.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements preliminary action through pre-defined protectorate templates and configurations that are prepared in advance. Clients can select from standardized templates or configure custom protectorates before deployment, and the system automatically provisions all necessary resources, reducing on-site management complexity while enabling extensive customization.
3Quantity of substance
If multi-tenant architecture is used, then cost-efficiency is improved, but isolation and customization are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses a nested architecture where multiple protectorates are contained within a single cloud infrastructure instance, similar to nested dolls. This allows multiple isolated tenant environments to share underlying physical or virtual resources while maintaining strong logical isolation boundaries, achieving both cost-efficiency and security.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary layer (the protectorate boundary layer) between the shared cloud infrastructure and individual tenant data. This intermediary provides data segregation and isolation mechanisms that allow multi-tenancy to coexist with strong security boundaries, enabling cost-efficient resource sharing without compromising tenant isolation.
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AI summary
Systems and methods for provisioning users in a multi-protectorate architecture in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. One embodiment includes a method for provisioning users in a multi-protectorate architecture on an instanced architecture. The method includes steps for creating a user in a first domain, receiving a request for available domains, wherein each domain is associated with a protectorate of the multi-protectorate architecture, making an elevated request based on the received request for available domains, returning requested available domains as a response to the received request for available domains, and moving created user from the first domain to a second domain.