Google Inc.

Joseph Richey

Sergey Karamov

Michael A Halcrow

Keith Moyer

Catalin Daniel Sandu

Michael Halcrow

Alex Wu

Jiankun Lu

A cloud implementation of a persisted storage device, such as a disk, is provided. The implementation supports a variety of features and protocols, in full analogy with a physical storage device such as a disk drive. The present disclosure provides for implementing standard eDrive protocols in the cloud by designing internal disk storage, referred to as a 'system area,' in a virtual disk instance that the virtual disk can potentially utilize for a multitude of disk features. This internal storage can be used to implement eDrive protocols, which use the system area to maintain the necessary internal virtual disk state.

Internal storage in cloud disk to support encrypted hard drive and other stateful features

A method includes obtaining a container associated with a first entity, the container executing a workload, the workload requiring access to private resources associated with a second entity. The method also includes obtaining encrypted resources including the private resources associated with the second entity. The method further includes generating a verifiable attestation. The method includes transmitting the verifiable attestation to an attestation service and, after transmitting the verifiable attestation, receiving, from an access policy verifier, a federated identity token. The method further includes generating a decrypt request including the federated identity token. The method includes transmitting, to a key management service, the decrypt request, and, after transmitting the decrypt request, receiving, from the key management service, a data encryption key. The method includes decrypting, using the data encryption key, the encrypted resources to access the private resources and providing the workload access to the private resources.

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Infernal storage in cloud disk to support encrypted hard drive and other stateful features

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Joseph Richey