Patent attributes
Methods, systems, and computer storage media for providing resource policy management based on a pre-commit verification engine are provided. Pre-commit verification operations are executed to simulate committing a policy, in a distributed computing environment, for test request instances, without actually committing the policy. In operation, a policy author communicates a policy and one or more test request instances. Based on the policy and the test request instances, an access control manager simulates committing the policy for the test request instances to the computing environment. Simulating committing the policy for test request instances is based on an existing set of policies including a live version of the policy and contextual information corresponding to the policy and the test request instances for the computing environment in which the policy will be applied. Based on simulating committing the policy without committing the policy, policy verification results for the policy are generated and communicated.
