US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on June 23 for "Managing security groups for data instances" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,906, issued on June 23, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Managing security groups for data instances" was invented by Grant Alexander Macdonald McAlister (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Access level and security group information can be updated for a data instance without having to take down or recycle the instance. A data instance created in a data environment will have at least one default security group. Permissions can be applied to the default security group to limit access via the data environment. A control security group can be created in a control environment and associated with the default securi...