Multi-Cloud Service Gateway for Private Cross-Cloud Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cloud environments provide closed ecosystems, restricting customers from easily accessing services offered by different cloud service providers, hindering seamless integration and utilization across multiple cloud platforms.
Innovation Solution
A multi-cloud control plane (MCCP) framework enables users to access services from one cloud environment on another, providing a user experience similar to native services, with transparent use of resources from a different cloud infrastructure, facilitated by a collection of microservices acting as proxies for communication.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If cloud environments provide closed ecosystems for their customers, then service security and control are improved, but cross-cloud service accessibility deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a service gateway as an intermediary component that sits between the closed cloud ecosystem and external users. The service gateway receives service requests from external users, validates them, and forwards them to the appropriate services within the cloud environment. This mediator enables cross-cloud accessibility while maintaining the security boundaries of the closed ecosystem, as the gateway can implement authentication, authorization, and request filtering mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The service gateway is designed with multi-functional capabilities to handle various types of service requests from different cloud environments. It can translate between different cloud protocols, manage multiple service types (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), and support diverse authentication methods. This universality allows the gateway to maintain security while enabling broad cross-cloud service accessibility without requiring separate solutions for each service type.
2Stability of the object's composition
If cloud environments restrict customers to their own services, then ecosystem integrity is improved, but service utilization across multiple clouds deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The service gateway acts as a controlled interface that allows customers to utilize services from multiple cloud environments while maintaining the integrity of each cloud's ecosystem. The gateway manages service requests, ensuring that each cloud's services are accessed through proper authentication and authorization channels, thus preserving ecosystem integrity while enabling cross-cloud service utilization.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the cloud service architecture into distinct components: the closed cloud ecosystem, the service gateway, and the external user interface. This segmentation allows each component to maintain its integrity and security properties while enabling controlled interaction between them. The service gateway segment specifically handles the translation and routing between external requests and internal services, maintaining ecosystem boundaries while enabling service utilization.
3Ease of operation
If transparent use of external cloud resources is enabled, then user experience consistency is improved, but system complexity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The service gateway serves as a transparent intermediary that abstracts the complexity of cross-cloud resource access from users. Users interact with services through a unified interface provided by the gateway, which handles the complex tasks of request routing, authentication, and resource management across different cloud environments. This transparency maintains consistent user experience while the gateway manages the underlying system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The service gateway creates virtual representations or copies of external cloud resources within the user's cloud environment context. Instead of requiring users to directly access external resources with different interfaces and protocols, the gateway presents local copies or proxies of these resources that behave like native services. This copying mechanism simplifies the user experience while the gateway manages the actual complex connections to external resources.
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AI summary
Techniques are described for establishing a private network path from a first cloud environment to a second cloud environment. A tenancy associated with the first cloud environment is provided in the second cloud environment. The tenancy includes a set of one or more resources that enable communication between the first cloud environment and the second cloud environment. A request originating in the second cloud environment and associated with a service provided by the first cloud environment is caused to be received by a first resource from the set of one or more resources. Using at least one resource from the set of one or more resources, the request is transmitted from the second cloud environment to first cloud environment.