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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Arup Acharya, Nanuet, NY (US);
Kirk Alan Beaty, Goldens Bridge, NY (US);
Ashish Kundu, Elmsford, NY (US);
Vijay K. Naik, Pleasantville, NY (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A cloud access manager obtains input regarding access control for at least one application deployed on a plurality of virtual machine instances in a cloud computing environment; the virtual machine instances are divided into at least first and second access zones. A cloud access manager registrar located in the cloud computing environment registers internet protocol addresses of external clients as seen from the cloud computing environment; at least some of the addresses are assigned to the clients via network address translation (NAT). Session traversal utility for NAT (STUN) is carried out to determine public internet protocol addresses assigned to the clients via NAT. The cloud access manager controls (i) access of the external clients to the plurality of virtual machine instances; and (ii) access of the plurality of virtual machine instances to each other, based on the registered internet protocol addresses, in accordance with the access zones.