METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTITY-BASED AUTHENTICATION OF VIRTUAL MACHINES

A cloud computing system configured to run virtual machine instances is disclosed. The cloud computing system assigns an identity to each virtual machine instance. When the virtual machine instance accesses initial configuration resources, it provides this identity to the resources to authenticate i...

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Hauptverfasser: Carlin Erik, Voccio Paul, Ishaya Vishvananda
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Zusammenfassung:A cloud computing system configured to run virtual machine instances is disclosed. The cloud computing system assigns an identity to each virtual machine instance. When the virtual machine instance accesses initial configuration resources, it provides this identity to the resources to authenticate itself. This allows for flexible and extensible initial configuration of virtual machine instances.