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  • Publication number: 20120072600
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer readable medium for managing CDN service providers are provided. A network storage provider storing one or more resources on behalf of a content provider obtains client computing device requests for content. The network storage provider processes the client computing device requests and determines whether a subsequent request for the resource should be directed to a CDN service provider as a function of the updated or processed by the network storage provider storage component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David R. Richardson, Bradley E. Marshall, Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Tal Saraf
  • Patent number: 10817327
    Abstract: A data volume can be created on a network-accessible storage device in a data center for use by a virtual machine instance. More specifically, a management system of the data center may request storage servers to allocate space for the data volume. Prior to receiving confirmation that the data volume has been created, the management system may further request the storage servers to establish a lease that authorizes the virtual machine access to the data volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Rohit Vashishtha, Jerry Lin
  • Patent number: 9195546
    Abstract: A method for backing up a database includes identifying n portions of a database wherein each of the n portions is greater than 0% and less than 100% of the database. The method also includes performing a complete backup of a first 1/n portion of the database and performing an incremental backup on the remaining (n?1)/n portion of the database, and for each subsequent backup, performing a complete backup of a next 1/n portion of the database and performing an incremental backup on the remaining (n?1)/n portion of the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Grant Alexander McAlister
  • Patent number: 10353746
    Abstract: A system for providing automatic resource resizing is provided. The system may be configured to maintain a plurality of virtual machine instances. The system may be further configured to receive a request to execute a program code and allocate computing resources for executing the program code on one of the virtual machine instances. The amount of resources allocated for executing the program code may be specified by the request and adjusted as needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Philip Reque, Derek Steven Manwaring, Dylan Chandler Thomas, Timothy Allen Wagner, Xin Zhao
  • Patent number: 10785320
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for an instance monitoring service. Instances are associated with alarm conditions indicating a deviation in the operational health of the instance. Upon an alarm condition being satisfied, a remedy operation may be applied to restore the operational health of the instance. A notification system may let customers know of satisfied alarms, and confirm or cancel remedy operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Derek Solomon Pai, Richard Nel-Boland, Brian Dennehy, Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec
  • Patent number: 11126469
    Abstract: A system for providing automatic resource resizing is provided. The system may be configured to maintain a plurality of virtual machine instances. The system may be further configured to receive a request to execute a program code and allocate computing resources for executing the program code on one of the virtual machine instances. The amount of resources allocated for executing the program code may be specified by the request and adjusted as needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Philip Reque, Derek Steven Manwaring, Dylan Chandler Thomas, Timothy Allen Wagner, Xin Zhao
  • Patent number: 10871995
    Abstract: Techniques for instantiating container instances from a pool of available container instances are described herein. An instance type is determined from a container description such that the instance type satisfies the resource parameters in the container description. An instance of the instance type is selected from a pool of running container instances, the instance is provisioned, and a container is instantiated on the instance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Robert Gerdesmeier, Christopher Brian Barclay, Anthony Joseph Suarez, Carlos Eduardo Lopez Biagi, Archana Srikanta
  • Patent number: 10909114
    Abstract: Partitions of a database table may be predicted for processing database queries. When a database query to a database is received, partitions of the database table that may exist may be predicted according to a partitioning scheme. The predicted partitions may be accessed in order to perform the query. In some embodiments, the partitioning scheme may be received from a user of the database. In some embodiments, the partitioning scheme may be obtained by analyzing the database table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony A. Virtuoso, Turkay Mert Hocanin
  • Patent number: 11461149
    Abstract: Techniques for capacity management in provider networks using dynamic host device instance type reconfigurations are described. A fleet reconfiguration service performs runtime reconfiguration of slots of host electronic devices that are available to execute compute instances, while the electronic devices may execute other compute instances, to dynamically change the type and/or numbers of slots of the electronic devices available for compute instance execution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Phillip Quinn, Diwakar Gupta
  • Patent number: 8930544
    Abstract: A system, method and computer-readable medium for client-side processing of resource identifiers. A client request for content is returned that includes information for generating a request for translation information and a number of embedded resource identifiers. Based on the information for generating a request for translation information, the client generates and obtains translation information and processes the embedded resource identifiers to obtain resources from a service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David R. Richardson, Bradley Eugene Marshall, Elmore Eugene Pope, Christopher L. Scofield, Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, John Cormie
  • Publication number: 20150149631
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for supporting customer-directed networking limits in distributed systems are disclosed. A client request is received via a programmatic interface, indicating a particular lower resource usage limit to be imposed on at least one category of network traffic at a particular instance of a network-accessible service. Resource usage metrics for one or more categories of network traffic at the particular instance are obtained. In response to a determination that resource usage at the particular instance has reached a threshold level, one or more responsive actions are initiated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: AVICHAI MENDLE LISSACK
  • Patent number: 8583776
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer readable medium for managing CDN service providers are provided. A network storage provider storing one or more resources on behalf of a content provider obtains client computing device requests for content. The network storage provider processes the client computing device requests and determines whether a subsequent request for the resource should be directed to a CDN service provider as a function of the updated or processed by the network storage provider storage component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David R. Richardson, Bradley E. Marshall, Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Tal Saraf
  • Patent number: 8938542
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments relating to fulfillment of requests for computing capacity. Multiple requests for allocating computing resources for customers are obtained. Each request specifies an availability time at which the computing resource is to be made available to the customer, a device parameter to select a type of computing device to provide the computing resource, a location parameter to select a location where the computing resource is to be physically located, and/or other parameters. The computing resources are allocated to the customers according to one or more allocation rules, the availability times, device parameters, location parameters, and/or other parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Nicholas J. Lynch
  • Patent number: 10069869
    Abstract: In response to receipt of a notification from a third service, a scaling policy specified by a customer of a computing resource service provider to be associated with the notification is obtained, with the scaling policy including a set of parameters that includes an identity of a resource of a second service of the computing resource service provider. As a result of processing the scaling policy in accordance with the set of parameters, a request is submitted to a second service to scale the resource, and output is provided that indicates whether the scaling request has been fulfilled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Thomas Lewis, Kai Fan Tang, Farzad Moghimi, Ahmed Usman Khalid, Stephan Weinwurm
  • Publication number: 20140244848
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments relating to fulfillment of requests for computing capacity. Multiple requests for allocating computing resources for customers are obtained. Each request specifies an availability time at which the computing resource is to be made available to the customer, a device parameter to select a type of computing device to provide the computing resource, a location parameter to select a location where the computing resource is to be physically located, and/or other parameters. The computing resources are allocated to the customers according to one or more allocation rules, the availability times, device parameters, location parameters, and/or other parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Nicholas J. Lynch
  • Patent number: 9830193
    Abstract: A system for providing automatic management of low latency computational capacity is provided. The system may be configured to maintain a plurality of virtual machine instances. The system may be further configured to identify a trend in incoming code execution requests to execute program code on a virtual compute system, determine, based on the identified trend, that the plurality of virtual machine instances should be adjusted, and adjust the plurality of virtual machine instances based on the identified trend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Allen Wagner, Sean Philip Reque, Dylan Chandler Thomas, Derek Steven Manwaring, Bradley Nathaniel Burkett
  • Patent number: 11076018
    Abstract: Systems and methods for account association with voice-enabled devices are disclosed. For example, a voice-enabled device situated in a managed environment, such as a hotel room, may be taken by a temporary resident or guest of the environment. Upon determining that the device has been removed from the environment, a device identifier associated with the device may be dissociated from components and/or services associated with environment and/or systems related thereto, and the device identifier may be associated with a user account of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Anand Kishor Mehta
  • Patent number: 8037186
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method routes service requests to services in a service framework provided by a plurality of hosts. The method comprises receiving a service request for a service in the service framework and discovering a plurality of candidate hosts that host the service. The plurality of candidate hosts are a subset of the plurality of hosts. The method further comprises selecting a candidate host from the plurality of candidate hosts based on measured latencies for the plurality of candidate hosts and routing the service request to the selected candidate host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Dan Mihai Dumitriu, Swaminathan Sivasubramanian
  • Patent number: 8516041
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for pre-fetching data from a service in advance of obtaining an asynchronous callback for the data from a client. It is determined whether a network page requested by a client is configured to prompt the client to initiate an asynchronous callback for data that may be pre-fetched. The data is pre-fetched from a service before obtaining the asynchronous callback for the data from the client. The data that has been pre-fetched from the service is sent to the client in response to obtaining the asynchronous callback for the data from the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven A. Miles
  • Patent number: 8756322
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments related to the fulfillment of requests for computing capacity. In one embodiment, a request queue includes requests from customers for computing resources to be allocated. Individual ones of the computing resources are allocated to individual ones of the customers based at least in part on requested availability times, device parameters, and at least one allocation rule. Another request for allocating a computing resource for a first customer is added to the request queue. At least one computing resource from a second customer is reallocated to the first customer in response to the other request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc
    Inventor: Nicholas J. Lynch