1. A cloud computing infrastructure having a rights management device ( 2 ) which is designed to manage operating rights ( 4 ) for at least one application ( 3 ) which can be executed in the cloud computing infrastructure ( 1 ) for the purpose of controlling the operation of the at least one application ( 3 ) in the cloud computing infrastructure, to evaluate the managed operating rights ( 4 ) with respect to execution of the at least one application, and to output an execution enable ( 5 ) on the basis of the evaluation of the operating rights ( 4 ); having an execution device ( 6 ) which is designed to execute the at least one application ( 3 ) in the cloud computing infrastructure ( 1 ) on the basis of the execution enable ( 5 ) which has been output.