Security appliance provisioning
AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.
InventorHart Matthew Rossman
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Abstract
A technology is provided for security appliance provisioning. In one example, a method includes providing a variety of types of physical security appliances in a service provider environment. A selection may be received identifying a selected security appliance from among the variety of types of physical security appliances for use in a customer virtual infrastructure within the service provider environment. The selected security appliance may be provisioned for use at an edge location of the customer virtual infrastructure. The selected security appliance may be configured to enforce a security policy defined for the customer virtual infrastructure.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- providing an account of the service provider environment access to a variety of types of physical security appliances and virtual security appliances in a service provider environment;
- receiving a request from the account, for a list of the variety of types of physical security appliances and virtual security appliances meeting criteria defined in the request;
- receiving a selection by the account, identifying a selected security appliance from a device farm including the variety of types of physical security appliances and virtual security appliances for use in a customer virtual infrastructure within the service provider environment;
- receiving configuration instructions to configure the selected security appliance, the configuration instructions including a security policy defined for the customer virtual infrastructure;
- allocating, in response to the selection by the account, the selected security appliance from the device farm at an edge location of the customer virtual infrastructure based on the configuration instructions;
- and
- configuring the selected security appliance to enforce the security policy.
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- providing an account of the service provider environment access to a variety of types of physical security appliances in a service provider environment;
- receiving a selection, made by the account, identifying a selected security appliance from a device farm having the variety of types of physical security appliances for use in a customer virtual infrastructure within the service provider environment;
- allocating, in response to the selection made by the account, the selected security appliance from the device farm at an edge location of the customer virtual infrastructure;
- and
- configuring the selected security appliance to enforce a security policy defined for the customer virtual infrastructure.
A computing system, comprising:
- a device farm including a variety of types of physical security appliances in a service provider environment;
- a plurality of computing devices in the service provider environment;
- a customer virtual infrastructure executing in the service provider environment on the plurality of computing devices;
- a digital marketplace configured to provide an account of the service provider environment with access to the device farm having the variety of types of physical security appliances and to receive a selection, made by the account, identifying a selected security appliance from the device farm for use in the customer virtual infrastructure;
- a physical network connecting the customer virtual infrastructure via the plurality of computing devices to the selected security appliance;
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- an interface to allocate, in response to the selection by the account, the selected security appliance from the device farm at an edge location of the customer virtual infrastructure and to configure the selected security appliance to enforce a security policy defined for the customer virtual infrastructure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.