Abstract: Techniques for managed services of cloud systems to perform inventory discovery of computing instances with particular configurations across user accounts in an organization, and across regions in the cloud systems. Cloud systems offer managed services that automate the management of configurations of computing instances on behalf organizations. To perform cross-account discovery of inventory information for these computing instances, the managed services often harness other internal cloud services, such as internal data-integration services and query services. However, some of these internal cloud services are not available in all the geographic regions of the cloud system, and due to these dependencies, the managed services are in turn not available in all regions.

Abstract: Techniques for a license manager service of a cloud system to activate and run licensed applications in VPCs with peering connections (or “peered VPCs”) established with configured VPCs. The license manager service may provide users with the ability to select a particular VPC to be configured to use licensed applications, and may further allow users to enable peered VPCs of the configured VPC to use licensed applications. The license manager service may provide a managed experience for activating the licenses for the applications running on computing resources in the configured VPCs and peered VPCs. The license manager service may launch licensed applications on virtual resources in a user's configured VPC and peered VPCs, manage the process for activating the licensed applications with third-party providers, and provide the user with access to licensed applications that have been activated and configured by the license manager service in configured and peered VPCs.

Abstract: Techniques for a license manager service of a cloud system to provide users with the ability to activate and run licensed applications in the cloud system. Manually tracking the usage of software licenses for licensed applications can be cumbersome and error-prone. Further, the process of activating the licenses for third-party applications may be difficult or impossible depending on the activation protocols and procedures put in place by the application providers. The license manager may provide users with the ability to activate and use licensed applications, and may further provide users with a managed experience for activating the licenses for the applications. The license manager may launch licensed applications on virtual resources in a user's VPC, manage the process for activating the licensed applications with third-party providers, and provide the users with access to licensed applications that have been activated and configured by the license manager.

Abstract: Techniques for managed services of cloud systems to perform inventory discovery of computing instances with particular configurations across user accounts in an organization, and across regions in the cloud systems. Cloud systems offer managed services that automate the management of configurations of computing instances on behalf organizations. To perform cross-account discovery of inventory information for these computing instances, the managed services often harness other internal cloud services, such as internal data-integration services and query services. However, some of these internal cloud services are not available in all the geographic regions of the cloud system, and due to these dependencies, the managed services are in turn not available in all regions.

Abstract: Techniques for automated defragmentation of licensed resources in a provider network are described. A defragmentation service in a provider network can detect the existence of intra-host fragmentation and/or inter-host fragmentation among host computing devices belonging to a host resource group of hosts dedicated to particular users. The defragmentation service can cause instances to be migrated to new locations within the host resource group to reduce or eliminate the fragmentation, allowing for hosts to beneficially be removed from the host resource group. The defragmentation service may determine which instances to be moved based on considerations involving software licenses associated with the host computing devices.

Abstract: Natural language commands are automatically mapped to application programming interface (API) functions of web-based services. Grammatical rules may be applied to the APIs in order to classify the actions of the APIs, in some embodiments, generating mappings between the natural language commands and the APIs. When a natural language input is received and a natural language command identified form the natural language input, the corresponding API indicated in the mapping may be invoked.