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Providing fine-grained access remote command execution for virtual machine instances in a distributed computing environment

  • US 10,609,080 B2
  • Filed: 10/16/2017
  • Issued: 03/31/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

  • processing a command document associated with a first entity, the command document identifying a resource and commands executable by the resource, to identify a policy associated with the first entity and limiting access, by a second entity, to a subset of the commands; and

    processing a request to access the resource by;

    identifying, based on information in the request, the resource, the command document, the policy, and the second entity associated with the request;

    authorizing the request as a result of determining that the request is associated with the second entity; and

    causing, based at least in part on the policy and the command document, execution of the subset of the commands by the resource.

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