Pattern-Based Cloud Architecture for Multi-Platform Deployment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current cloud computing architectures face challenges in providing flexibility, consistency, and security due to individualized configurations across different cloud platforms, leading to inefficiencies in development, deployment, and management, as well as difficulties in cloud migration and infrastructure security.
Innovation Solution
A pattern-based cloud computing architecture is introduced, comprising a base layer, a landing zone layer, and an application pattern layer, which standardizes services and operating parameters across multiple cloud environments, enabling flexible deployment and management while ensuring security and compatibility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If individualized configuration and management is used for each cloud-based application, then each application can be customized for its particular use, but development time increases and interoperability between applications and across platforms is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal base layer with common services (authentication, authorization, logging, monitoring) that can be shared across multiple cloud-based applications. This allows different applications to inherit and reuse the same core functionality, reducing development time while maintaining the ability to customize application-specific features through configuration rather than code.
2Productivity
If each cloud service provider uses its own protocols, then services can be optimized for that provider's platform, but applications developed for one provider may not work with other cloud services
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary base layer that sits between the application layer and various cloud service provider platforms. This base layer implements adapter patterns and protocol translation capabilities, allowing applications to interact with different cloud providers through a unified interface while maintaining optimized connections to each provider's specific services underneath.
3Reliability
If individualized configuration is used for each application, then each application can be securely configured, but security is reduced by introducing additional attack points
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges security-related functions (authentication, authorization, encryption, logging) into a centralized base layer that is shared across all applications. This reduces the number of security attack points by eliminating redundant security implementations and ensuring consistent security policies are applied across all applications through a single, well-audited codebase.
4Device complexity
If application blueprints are used to restrict cloud-based applications to limited functions, then complexity and interoperability issues are avoided, but flexibility and functionality are sacrificed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the system into distinct layers: a standardized base layer handling common functionality and a flexible application layer for custom functionality. This segmentation allows the base layer to maintain low complexity with well-defined interfaces, while the application layer can achieve high flexibility through configuration and composition of base services, without requiring new blueprints for each use case.
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AI summary
Systems and methods for providing a pattern-based cloud architecture facilitating deployment of pattern-based cloud applications are presented. The pattern-based cloud architecture comprises a base layer having one or more bases, a landing zone layer comprising one or more landing zones within each base, and an application pattern layer comprising one or more application patters for each landing zone. Each base provides base services and/or parameters common to all landing zones associated with such base. Each landing zone adds services and/or parameters specific to such landing zone, while inheriting those of the associated base. Application patterns define the requirements and capability of cloud-based applications that can be run within each associated landing zone.