20240039789. DETERMINING CONFIGURATION CHANGES IN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT simplified abstract (Capital One Services, LLC)

DETERMINING CONFIGURATION CHANGES IN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT

Organization Name

Capital One Services, LLC

Inventor(s)

Seth Patrick Carroll of Murphy TX (US)

David Samuel Burkhalter, Jr. of Dallas TX (US)

Jay Son of Fairfax VA (US)

DETERMINING CONFIGURATION CHANGES IN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - A simplified explanation of the abstract

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20240039789 titled 'DETERMINING CONFIGURATION CHANGES IN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT

Simplified Explanation

The abstract describes a patent application for a central cloud computing account that can collect and organize events from multiple decentralized cloud computing accounts. The central account uses standardized formatting to store configuration information and allows for versioning of changes made to the configuration information in each decentralized account.

• The central cloud computing account aggregates events from multiple decentralized cloud computing accounts.
• The events can include configuration change events, policy change events, computing resource-based events, and AWS resource policy modification events.
• The central account implements standardized formatting for configuration information.
• The standardized formatting allows for versioning of changes made to the configuration information in each decentralized account.
• The technology facilitates the management and organization of events and configuration information across multiple cloud computing accounts.

Potential Applications:

• Centralized management and monitoring of multiple cloud computing accounts.
• Streamlining configuration changes and policy modifications across multiple accounts.
• Facilitating collaboration and coordination between different geographic regions or departments within an organization.

Problems Solved:

• Difficulty in managing and organizing events and configuration information across multiple decentralized cloud computing accounts.
• Lack of standardized formatting for configuration information, leading to inconsistencies and difficulties in tracking changes.
• Challenges in coordinating and implementing changes to configuration information across multiple accounts.

Benefits:

• Improved efficiency and consistency in managing and monitoring multiple cloud computing accounts.
• Simplified tracking and versioning of changes to configuration information.
• Enhanced collaboration and coordination between different teams or regions within an organization.

Original Abstract Submitted

a central cloud computing account may aggregate events (e.g., configuration change events, policy change events, computing resource-based events, aws resource policy modification events, etc.) from a plurality of non-centralized (e.g., distributed across various geographic regions, etc.) cloud computing accounts. the central cloud computing account may implement standardized and/or common formatting for configuration information (e.g., computing resource policy information, aws resource policy information, etc.) indicated by each of the aggregated events. the standardized and/or common formatting may facilitate versioning to indicate changes to the configuration information for each of the non-centralized cloud computing accounts.