Patent ID: 11956220
Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 10:
11. A computer system, comprising:
one or more processors that execute instructions to:
store data associated with hardware logic designed to be programmed into a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) on a server computer;
encrypt the data to generate encrypted data associated with the hardware logic;
sign the encrypted data with a private key and store the signed encrypted data in a database;
receive a request to launch a virtual machine instance in association with the hardware logic;
in response to the request to launch the virtual machine instance, retrieve the signed encrypted data from the database and transmit the signed encrypted data to the server computer designated to launch the virtual machine instance;
using the server computer, decrypt the signed encrypted data to retrieve the hardware design and program the FPGA using the hardware design; and
launch the virtual machine instance on the server computer.