Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Providing fine-grained access remote command execution for virtual machine instances in a distributed computing environment
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Application No.: US14975376Application Date: 2015-12-18
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Publication No.: US09794292B2Publication Date: 2017-10-17
- Inventor: Amjad Hussain , Manivannan Sundaram , Sivaprasad Venkata Padisetty , Nikolaos Pamboukas , Alan Hadley Goodman
- Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US WA Seattle
- Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- Current Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Seattle
- Agency: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; H04L12/24 ; G06F21/62

Abstract:
A selection of a document that includes a command and a parameter is received, and a user is caused to be associated with a policy that grants permission to execute the document. A request is received, from a requestor, to execute the document, the request including a parameter value, and the requestor is determined to be the user associated with the policy. The user is validated to have access to a resource indicated by the parameter value, and the command is caused to be executed against the resource.
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