Multi-Cloud Control Plane Linking Tenancy Across Cloud Providers
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cloud environments provided by different cloud service providers operate as closed ecosystems, restricting customers from easily accessing services offered by other cloud environments, thus limiting interoperability and flexibility.
Innovation Solution
A multi-cloud control plane (MCCP) framework enables users to access services from one cloud environment on another cloud environment, providing a user experience similar to the native environment, by creating a link resource object that integrates tenancy information across environments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If cloud environments operate as closed ecosystems, then service security and management control are improved, but customer ability to access services from other cloud environments deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a multi-cloud control plane (MCCP) as an intermediary layer between different cloud environments. The MCCP framework enables cross-cloud service access by acting as a mediator that translates and routes requests between closed cloud ecosystems, allowing customers to access services from one cloud environment through another without compromising the security boundaries of individual clouds.
2Ease of operation
If cloud environments maintain closed ecosystems, then native cloud service management is simplified, but customer flexibility to use multiple cloud providers deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The MCCP framework provides universal access capabilities that work across multiple cloud providers while maintaining each provider's native service management interfaces. The system enables customers to access services from any cloud provider through a unified control plane without requiring changes to the underlying cloud services or their management interfaces.
3Adaptability or versatility
If cloud environments are integrated across providers, then service accessibility and customer flexibility are improved, but system complexity and integration overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the multi-cloud integration functionality into a separate control plane layer (MCCP) that is distinct from the individual cloud environments. This segmentation allows each cloud provider to maintain their existing infrastructure and management complexity while the MCCP handles the integration logic, routing, and translation between different cloud environments.
4Productivity
If cross-cloud service access is enabled, then customer utility and service utilization are improved, but authentication and authorization complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The MCCP acts as an intermediary authentication layer that manages cross-cloud identity and access control. The system receives authentication requests from customers, validates credentials against the appropriate cloud provider, and manages authorization policies for cross-cloud service access, thereby simplifying the authentication process for customers while maintaining security requirements.
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AI summary
Techniques are described for providing a multi-cloud control plane (MCCP) in a first cloud infrastructure (included in a first cloud environment provided by a first cloud services provider) that enables services and/or resources provided in the first cloud infrastructure to be utilized by users of a second cloud environment, where the second cloud environment is different than the first cloud environment. The multi-cloud infrastructure enables a user associated with an account with a second cloud services provider to use, from the second cloud infrastructure, a first service from the set of one or more cloud services. The multi-cloud infrastructure creates a link between the account with the second cloud service provider and a tenancy created in the first cloud infrastructure for enabling using the first service by the user.