Patent 9491183 was granted and assigned to Amazon on November, 2016 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
In a computing environment a request is received from a computing device associated with a user, requesting access to one or more computing resources. An approximate geographic location of the computing device is determined based on geographic information associated with the computing device. Access to the requested one or more computing resources is allowed based on the approximate geographic location of the computing device and geographic policy information for the user.