Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Joyent, Inc.

Nathan R Fitch

Gregory Branchek Roth

Graeme David Baer

Eric Jason Brandwine

Kevin Ross O'Neill

Bradley Jeffery Behm

Brian Irl Pratt

Mark Joseph Cavage

Eric D Crahen

Cristian Marius Ilac

Yunong Jeff Xiao

Bryan M Cantrill

James E Scharf, Jr

David Pacheco

Fred Kuo

John David Cormie

Peter Sirota

Don Johnson

Anders Samuelsson

Patrick James Ward

Gregory B Roth

Bradley Jeffrey Behm

Kevin Ross O'neill

Cristian M Ilac

Graeme D Baer

Eric J Brandwine

Christian M Ilac

In certain embodiments, a web services system receives a request to provision a device, such as a telephone, as an authentication device. The web services system initiates display of an image communicating a key to allow the telephone to capture the image and to send key information associated with the key. The web services system receives the key and determines that the key information is valid. In response to the determination, the web services system sends a seed to the telephone to provision the telephone to be an authentication device. The telephone can use the seed to generate one-time passcodes to access a service of the web services system.

Provisioning a device to be an authentication device

Virtual firewalls may be established that enforce sets of policies with respect to computing resources maintained by multi-tenant distributed services. Particular subsets of computing resources may be associated with particular tenants of a multi-tenant distributed service. A tenant may establish a firewalling policy set enforced by a virtual firewall for an associated subset of computing resources without affecting other tenants of the multi-tenant distributed service. Virtual firewalls enforcing multiple firewalling policy sets may be maintained by a common firewalling component of the multi-tenant distributed service. Firewalling policy sets may be distributed at multiple locations throughout the multi-tenant distributed service. For a request targeting a particular computing resource, the common firewalling component may identify the associated virtual firewall, and submit the request to the virtual firewall for evaluation in accordance with the corresponding firewalling policy set.

Virtual firewalls for multi-tenant distributed services

A delegation request is submitted to a session-based authentication service, fulfillment of which involves granting an entity an access privilege to a computing resource. A session key is received from the session-based authentication service. The session key having been generated based at least in part on a restriction and a secret credential shared with the session-based authentication service and usable at least in part to prove possession of the access privilege to the computing resource. The session key is provided to the entity without providing the shared secret credential.

Parameter based key derivation

Systems and methods for controlling access to one or more computing resources relate to generating session credentials that can be used to access the one or more computing resources. Access to the computing resources may be governed by a set of policies and requests for access made using the session credentials may be fulfilled depending on whether they are allowed by the set of policies. The session credentials themselves may include metadata that may be used in determining whether to fulfill requests to access the one or more computing resources. The metadata may include permissions for a user of the session credential, claims related to one or more users, and other information.

Techniques for delegation of access privileges

Client requests may be directed through a secret holding proxy system such that the secret holding proxy system may insert a secret into a client request before arriving at the destination. The insertion of a secret may include inserting a digital signature, token or other information that includes a secret or information based upon a secret, which may include secret exchange or authentication protocols. The secret holding proxy system may also remove secrets and/or transform incoming messages such that the client may transparently receive the underlying content of the message.

Authentication through a secret holding proxy

Use of metadata for computing resource access

Authenticated requests can be sent without requiring the requests to include or potentially expose secret information used for the authentication process. A client device use a security credential such as a key to sign a request to be sent to a recipient. When the request is received, the recipient determines whether the request was signed using the correct key for the sender. In some embodiments a client token is included with the request that statelessly encodes the key, enabling a recipient capable of decoding the client token to determine the key and compare that key to the signature of the request. The sender can store the secret information in a secure location, such as a browser security module, such that the secret information is not exposed to the browser or script executing on the client device.

Browser security module

Systems and methods are described for delegating permissions to enable account access. The systems utilize a delegation profile that can be created within a secured account of at least one user. The delegation profile includes a name, a validation policy that specifies principals which may be external to the account and which are permitted to assume the delegation profile, and an authorization policy that indicates the permitted actions within the account for those principals which are acting within the delegation profile. Once the delegation profile is created, it can be provided to external principals or services. These external principals or services can use the delegation profile to obtain credentials for performing various actions in the account using the credentials of the delegation profile.

Entity to authorize delegation of permissions

Stateless and secure authentication

Techniques are described for providing users with computing resources, such as to enable users to interact with a remote configurable computing resource service in order to create and configure computing resources that are provided by the configurable computing resource service for use by the users. Computing resources provided by the configurable computing resource service may be configured to be private computing resources that are accessible only by the users who create them. The configurable computing resource service provides one or more interfaces that allow a user to provide to the computing resource service an indication of a security concern related to the provided computing resources, and responds to a received indication of a security concern by taking one or more actions to secure the provided computing resources.

Computing resource service security method

Techniques are described for managing access to computing-related resources that, for example, may enable multiple distinct parties to independently control access to the resources (e.g., such that a request to access a resource succeeds only if all of multiple associated parties approve that access). For example, an executing software application may, on behalf of an end user, make use of computing-related resources of one or more types that are provided by one or more remote third-party network services (e.g., data storage services provided by an online storage service)&#x2014;in such a situation, both the developer user who created the software application and the end user may be allowed to independently specify access rights for one or more particular such computing-related resources (e.g., stored data files), such that neither the end user nor the software application developer user may later access those resources without the approval of the other party.

Controlling use of computing-related resources by multiple independent parties

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Nathan R Fitch