Patent ID: 11936640
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 14:
15. A non-transitory machine readable medium storing a program for execution by a set of processing units, the program for providing an authentication resource to a particular virtual private cloud that is deployed in a set of datacenters that host a plurality of virtual private clouds, the program comprising sets of instructions for:
at a resource issuer,
receiving an authentication resource request from a particular machine deployed in the particular virtual private cloud, the authentication resource request comprising a first set of cloud-specific data;
obtaining a cloud identifier for the particular machine from a registry service of the particular virtual private cloud that interacts with a datacenter-set cloud service that deploys machines in the datacenter set for different virtual private clouds, said cloud identifier identifying the particular machine from a plurality of other machines that are identified by other cloud identifiers from the registry service;
using the obtained cloud identifier to obtain a second set of cloud-specific data for the particular machine from the datacenter-set cloud service; and
upon determining that the first and second sets of cloud-specific data match, authenticating the particular machine and issuing the authentication resource for the particular machine.