US Patent 11146560 Distributed governance of computing resources

Technology is described for a distributed ledger service within a service provider environment. The distributed ledger service may implement a distributed ledger formed from immutable append-only data structure and used for governance of computing resources. A policy governing a computing resource may be created and published to the distributed ledger on behalf of an account. The policy may be retrieved from the distributed ledger to govern access to the computing resource by the account.