STRONG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT FOR COMPUTING APPLICATION FUNCTIONALITY

摘要

Illegal, unauthorized, uncompensated and/or under-compensated utilization of computing application functionality may be mitigated at least in part by controlling access to executable instructions implementing the computing application functionality. The executable instructions may be executed by a set of one or more virtual machines provisioned by a multi-tenant virtual resource provider. The virtual resource provider may provision the virtual machines and other virtual resources with a set of implementation resources managed by a control plane of the virtual resource provider. The control plane may perform a number of control functions for the virtual resource provider including management and enforcement of virtual resource access policies such as one or more policies collectively specifying that the computing application functionality is to be accessed in accordance with a license or agreement between a third party provider or vendor of the computing application functionality and a user of the computing application functionality.