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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2012
Erik J. Fuller, Cape Town, ZA;
Eric J. Brandwine, Haymarket, VA (US);
Christopher J. Lefelhocz, Bothell, WA (US);
Arijit Ganguly, Kirkland, WA (US);
Eric W. Schultze, Bellevue, WA (US);
Erik J. Fuller, Cape Town, ZA;
Eric J. Brandwine, Haymarket, VA (US);
Christopher J. Lefelhocz, Bothell, WA (US);
Arijit Ganguly, Kirkland, WA (US);
Eric W. Schultze, Bellevue, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for provider-arbitrated mandatory access control policies in cloud computing environments are disclosed. A system includes an access manager, and a plurality of resources configurable to provide a plurality of distributed, web-accessible services. Each service has a respective service manager. The access manager determines whether a mandatory access control policy document specified by a service manager of a particular service applies to an administration request, wherein the policy indicates that a permission setting for a resource being used to implement at least a portion of the particular service cannot be modified by a client with administrative rights on the resource. In response to determining that the policy document applies, and that an evaluation of the policy document indicates that an administrative operation specified in the administration request is prohibited by the policy, the access manager rejects the administration request.