Retrieving and using cloud based storage credentials

A computer program product for use at a computer system, the computer system including a computing component having a cloud interface module, the computer system within a customer premise and connected to an on premise cluster, a cloud management infrastructure, and a resource cloud, the computer program product for implementing a method for retrieving and using cloud based storage credentials, the computer program product comprising one more computer storage devices having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed at a processor, cause the computer system to perform the method, including the following:

• submit registration information to a cloud management infrastructure that managers access to resources within the resource cloud, the registration information for a customer that is to utilize resources in the resource cloud;
• receive account data for the customer from the cloud management infrastructure;
• receive a customer request to instantiate a computing service within the cloud;
• determine that a storage credential for the customer's storage account is not cached at the computing component;
• an act of querying the cloud management infrastructure for the storage credential for the customer's storage account in response to the determination that the storage credential for the customer's storage account is not cached at the computing component, the query including a portion of the account data for the customer;
• an act of receiving the storage credential for the customer's storage account from the cloud management infrastructure, the storage credential accessed from an account database;
• an act of using the storage credential to store customer data in the customer's data storage within the resource cloud;
• an act of using the storage credential to store binary code in the customer's data storage within the resource cloud;
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• an act of instructing the cloud interface module to execute the binary code to instantiate an instance of a computing service in response to the customer request.

At a computer system including one or more processors and system memory, the computer system also including a high performance computing component having a cloud interface module, the computer system within a customer premise and connected to an on premise cluster, a cloud management infrastructure, and a resource cloud, a method for retrieving and using cloud based storage credentials, the method comprising:

• an act of the high performance computing component receiving account data for a customer that is to utilize resources within the resource cloud;
• an act of the high performance computing component querying the cloud management infrastructure for an encryption key for the customer's storage account within the resource cloud, the query including a portion of the account data for the customer;
• an act of the high performance computing component receiving an encryption key for the customer's storage account;
• an act of the high performance computing component using the encryption key to store customer data in the customer's data storage within the resource cloud;
• an act of the high performance computing component using the encryption key to store binary code in the customer's data storage within the resource cloud;
• an act of the high performance computing component submitting a command to execute the high performance computing binary code to instantiate an instance of a computing service;
• an act of receive results from the instantiated instance of the computing service in the resource cloud;
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• combining the received results from the instantiated instance of the computing service with results from the on premise cluster to assist in solving a scientific problem.