Transferring ownership of computing resources

摘要

A service provider provides instances of computing resources for customer use, such as instances of data processing resources, data storage resources, database resources, and networking resources. A customer of the service provider might create a solution that utilizes one or more instances of computing resources provided by the service provider. The customer can request to transfer control and payment responsibility for computing resources, such as those utilized in a solution, to another customer of the distributed computing environment. In response to such a request, control and payment responsibility for the resources may be transferred to the receiving customer. The request to transfer resources might be received by way of a solution marketplace or through another mechanism.

主权项

1. A system for transferring ownership of instances of computing resources in a distributed computing environment, the system comprising:
one or more computer systems configured to provide an environment for implementing a solution comprising one or more virtual machine instances; and one or more computing devices configured to
receive a request to transfer the solution from a first customer of the environment to a second customer of the environment, andin response to receiving the request to transfer the solution,
monitor, by the one or more computing devices, execution of the virtual machine instances,identify one or more other computing resources associated with the solution by a resource identification module executing on the one or more computing devices based on the monitoring of the execution of the virtual machine instances,transfer control of the virtual machine instances and the one or more other computing resources from the first customer to the second customer, andtransfer payment responsibility for the solution from the first customer to the second customer.