GEOLOCATION-BASED ACTIVATION AND DE-ACTIVATION OF HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE FUNCTIONALITIES IN THE CLOUD

摘要

A method alters a computer resource while in a particular geolocation. One or more processors detect that a geolocation of a computer resource has changed from an initial geolocation to a new geolocation, where the computer resource is a virtual machine (VM). In response to detecting that the geolocation of the VM has changed from the initial geolocation to the new geolocation, the processor(s) reduce a functionality of the VM by reducing a quantity of processors and storage space available to the VM at the new geolocation as compared to the initial geolocation.