1. A cloud computing infrastructure comprising: a rights management device configured to manage operating rights for at least one application that is executable in the cloud computing infrastructure for the purpose of controlling operation of the at least one application in the cloud computing infrastructure, to evaluate the managed operating rights with respect to execution of the at least one application, and to output an execution enable based on the evaluation of the operating rights; and an execution device configured to execute the at least one application in the cloud computing infrastructure based on the execution enable that has been output.