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  • SECURE VIRTUAL MACHINE MIGRATION
    Publication number: 20140208111
    Abstract: A formalized set of interfaces (e.g., application programming interfaces (APIs)) is described, that uses a security scheme, such as asymmetric (or symmetric) cryptography, in order to enable secure migration of virtual machine instances between multiple host computing devices. The migration is performed by receiving a request to migrate a virtual machine where the request includes public keys for the source host computing and the destination host computing. The source and destination hosts use the public keys to establish an encrypted session and then use the encrypted session to migrate the virtual machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2013
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
  • NON-OCCLUDED DISPLAY FOR HOVER INTERACTIONS
    Publication number: 20140282269
    Abstract: A computing device can be configured to recognize when a user hovers over or is within a determined distance of an element displayed on the computing device to perform certain tasks. Information associated with the element can be displayed when such a hover input is detected. This information may comprise a description of what tasks are performed by selection of the element. This information could also be an enlarged version of the element to help the user disambiguate selection of multiple elements. The information can be displayed in a manner such that at least substantive portions of the information would not be obscured or occluded by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
  • User-Influenced Placement of Virtual Machine Instances
    Publication number: 20140337833
    Abstract: A service provider network includes functionality for allowing a customer to influence the placement of virtual machine instances on server computers by specifying a placement strategy. Placement strategies may be shared among customers of the service provider network, and the placement strategies and the publishers of the placement strategies might be rated. Vendor-agnostic placement strategies might also be utilized to identify a service provider network for executing a virtual machine instance. A placement strategy that includes dynamically evaluated parameters might also be utilized to modify virtual machine instances in a customer fleet on an ongoing basis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
  • User-Influenced Placement of Virtual Machine Instances
    Publication number: 20140337834
    Abstract: A service provider network includes functionality for allowing a customer to influence the placement of virtual machine instances on server computers by specifying a placement strategy. Placement strategies may be shared among customers of the service provider network, and the placement strategies and the publishers of the placement strategies might be rated. Vendor-agnostic placement strategies might also be utilized to identify a service provider network for executing a virtual machine instance. A placement strategy that includes dynamically evaluated parameters might also be utilized to modify virtual machine instances in a customer fleet on an ongoing basis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
  • RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON ITEMS VIEWED DURING A CURRENT BROWSING SESSION
    Publication number: 20130198030
    Abstract: Various processes are disclosed for discovering item relationships between particular items, such as products represented in an electronic catalog, based on monitored user behaviors (e.g., item viewing activities, item purchases, shopping cart activities, etc.). The discovered item relationships may, for example, be used to generate personalized item recommendations for users, and/or to supplement item detail pages of an electronic catalog with lists of related items. Also disclosed are processes for generating personalized item recommendations based on users' search activities and browse node visits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: Amazon.com, Inc.
    Inventor: Amazon.com, Inc.
  • FILLING AN ORDER AT AN INVENTORY PIER
    Publication number: 20140100715
    Abstract: A system includes a inventory pier and a mobile drive unit. The inventory pier includes a first side and a second side. The first side includes defined areas at which inventory holders are designated to be stationed. The inventory pier is operable to receive inventory items from at least one of the inventory holders at least one of the defined areas. The mobile drive unit is operable to transport an order holder along the second side of the inventory pier, wherein the order holder is operable to receive an inventory item from the inventory pier at a location along the second side of the inventory pier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
  • Inventory System with Connectable Inventory Holders
    Publication number: 20140214195
    Abstract: A system includes a first mobile drive unit and a second mobile drive unit. The first mobile drive unit is operable to dock with a first item holder at a first end of a column of connected item holders. The second mobile drive unit is operable to dock with a second item holder at a second end of the column of connected item holders. The system also includes a management module that is operable to instruct the first mobile drive unit and the second mobile drive units to transport the column of connected item holders from a first location to a second location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
  • EFFICIENT READ REPLICAS
    Publication number: 20140324785
    Abstract: A database system may receive a write request that specifies a modification to be made to a particular data record stored by the database system. A log record representing the modification to be made to the particular data record may be sent to a storage service of the database system. An indication (e.g., log record or other indication) that indicates a cached version of the particular data record stored in a read replica's cache is stale may be sent to a read replica. For a subsequent read of the particular data record received by the read replica, the read replica may request the particular data record from the storage service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
  • Application Programming Interface for a Sharing Service
    Publication number: 20140237490
    Abstract: A computing device executes an application that is configured to call a sharing service application programming interface (“API”) to create a sharing session via a sharing service. The application can call the sharing service API to utilize one or more methods exposed by the sharing service API to connect to the sharing service and initiated the creation of the sharing session. The computing device can join the sharing session with one or more other computing devices. The computing device can receive data via the sharing session from one or more of the other computing devices. The data can include screen data and/or application data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
  • SECURING RESULTS OF PRIVILEGED COMPUTING OPERATIONS
    Publication number: 20140208097
    Abstract: A formalized set of interfaces (e.g., application programming interfaces (APIs)) is described, that uses a security scheme, such as asymmetric (or symmetric) cryptography, in order to secure the results of privileged operations on systems such as the operating system (OS) kernel and/or the hypervisor. The interface allows a public key to be included into a request to perform a privileged operation on a hypervisor and/or kernel. The kernel and/or hypervisor use the key included in the request to encrypt the results of the privileged operation. In some embodiments, the request itself can also be encrypted, such that any intermediate parties are not able to read the parameters and other information of the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2013
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
  • INSTANCE HOST CONFIGURATION
    Publication number: 20140207918
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for instance host configuration are disclosed. A system includes a plurality of instance hosts configurable for resource instances of a network-accessible service, and control servers to manage remote configuration of the instance hosts. In response to an instance configuration request from a client, a selected control server transmits, to a selected instance host, a sequence of one or more commands. The selected instance host instantiates a remote command executor. The remote command executor initiates configuration operations corresponding to the command sequence, and terminates. The selected control server provides a response to the instance configuration request, based at least in part on results of the operations initiated by the executor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2013
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
  • USER INTERFACE AND METHODS FOR RECOMMENDING ITEMS TO USERS
    Publication number: 20130097052
    Abstract: Improved user interfaces and methods are provided for presenting item recommendations to a user when the user selects an item to add to an electronic shopping cart. In response to the user's selection, a page generation process generates and returns a page that includes a condensed shopping cart portion and a recommendations portion. The condensed shopping cart portion may include a link to an additional page that includes controls for editing the shopping cart and/or includes additional information regarding contents of the shopping cart. The recommendations portion may include multiple recommendations sections that are populated using different respective item selection methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
  • Progressive Image Rendering Utilizing Data URI Enhancements
    Publication number: 20140089778
    Abstract: Architectures and techniques for providing an initial portion of media content of a network site to a user equipment. One technique includes embedding an initial portion of the media content within hypertext markup language (HTML) for displaying a page of the network site. A uniform resource identifier (URI) is embedded within the HTML for displaying the page of the network site that includes the media content, where the URI indicates a location of the media content. The HTML including the initial portion of the media content and the URI is provided to the user equipment for displaying the page of the network site that includes the media content on the user equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc
    Inventor: Amazon Technologies, Inc
  • AUTOMATED DESKTOP PLACEMENT
    Publication number: 20140258450
    Abstract: Systems and methods are presented for enabling a user to provide rules for the placement of computing resources at a data center for an entity that employs or is associated with the user. The data center can use the placement rules to select a data center computer system to host computing resources for a user. The rules can be used to establish diversity in computing resource placement at the data center thereby reducing the number of users who lose access to computing resources when a specific data center computer suffers a failure. Further, the placement rules can be used to facilitate configuration of the computer resources for the user based, for example, on the user's employment responsibilities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
  • LOCALITY BASED CONTENT DISTRIBUTION
    Publication number: 20130318153
    Abstract: A system and method for content distribution are provided. A content provider generates a network topology having one or more subnetworks made up of content sources. The content provider segments content, such as applications, into segments for distribution. The content provider then distributes the content such that for each identified subnetwork, each content segment is distributed to a content source. Subsequent, client computing device requests for content can be serviced by selecting a content source in a particular subnetwork selected for delivering the requested content to the client computing device to minimize traffic flow of the requested content through the nodes of the distribution network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2013
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
  • MODULAR SYSTEM FOR DATA CENTER
    Publication number: 20130201618
    Abstract: A modular computing system for a data center includes one or more data center modules including rack-mounted computer systems. An electrical module is coupled to the data center modules and provides electrical power to computer systems in the data center modules. One or more air handling modules are coupled to the data center modules. The data center module may include two pre-fabricated portions, each portion including a row of racks of computer systems. The two computing module portions of the data center module may combine to form a computing space when coupled to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
  • COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE FOR CONFIGURABLE-QUALITY RANDOM DATA
    Publication number: 20140244785
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for a computing infrastructure for configurable-quality random data are disclosed. A storage medium stores program instructions that when executed on a processor designate some servers of a provider network as members of a pool of producers of random data usable by random data consumers. The instructions, when executed, determine a subset of the pool to be used to supply a collection of random data intended for a random data consumer, and one or more sources of random phenomena to be used to generate the collection of random data. The instructions, when executed, initiate a transmission of the collection of random data directed to the random data consumer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
  • DISTRIBUTED CACHING CLUSTER MANAGEMENT
    Publication number: 20140149537
    Abstract: A management system may enable and monitor a cache or other cluster to make the cluster configuration-aware such that initialization and changes to the underlying structure of the cluster can be dynamically updated. For example, a distributed memory caching system may provide initial configuration to a client from a memory caching node referenced by an alias provided by a configuration endpoint. Updates of configuration may be retrieved from memory caching nodes, each storing current configuration of the cache cluster. A management system monitors changes to the cache cluster, such as provisioning of new caching nodes, and updates the configuration stored in the caching nodes for retrieval by a client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
  • MODULAR SYSTEM FOR DATA CENTER
    Publication number: 20130199032
    Abstract: A modular computing system for a data center includes one or more data center modules including rack-mounted computer systems. An electrical module is coupled to the data center modules and provides electrical power to computer systems in the data center modules. One or more air handling modules are coupled to the data center modules. The data center module may include two pre-fabricated portions, each portion including a row of racks of computer systems. The two computing module portions of the data center module may combine to form a computing space when coupled to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
  • DETERMINING APPROPRIATE BROWSING APPLICATIONS FOR SELECTED NETWORK RESOURCES
    Publication number: 20140280482
    Abstract: A network resource, such as a page, may be loaded or rendered in different manners on a plurality of different browsers. Data and information regarding the loading and/or rendering of various network resources on a variety of browsers, including data or information regarding errors, latencies or customer ratings of the loading or rendering of such resources on such browsers, may be evaluated in order to identify the most appropriate browser for viewing a requested network resource. If that network resource is available to a user who requests the network resource, then a recommendation or an instruction to view the network resource in the most appropriate browser may be provided to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
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