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  • Decentralized request routing
    Patent number: 8843630
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide logic for decentralized request routing. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method routes a request. The method includes receiving, by a client server, the request. The client server evaluates feedback information received by the client server from at least one of a plurality of host servers. The client server selects one of the plurality of host servers to process the request, based on the evaluation, and transmits the request to the selected one of the plurality of host servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher C. Thomas, Christopher Kommareddy, Preetha Chatterjee, Nan Zhong, Mitchell Sundt, Vivek Rai
  • Resource planning for computing
    Patent number: 8612596
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for the planning of resources used in computing. Usage statistics regarding one or more machine instances executing in a plurality of networked computing devices are obtained. The usage statistics are grouped based at least in part on one or more customer usage classifications, thereby producing one or more usage groups. A corresponding demand forecast is generated for each of the usage groups. A projected demand for one or more physical components of the networked computing devices is calculated according to the demand forecasts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiao Yu Li, Diwakar Gupta, Akshay Kumar Reddy Katta, Sergey Krasnovsky, Kalyanaraman Prasad
  • Including prior request performance information in requests to schedule subsequent request performance
    Patent number: 11032392
    Abstract: A network-based service may schedule requests received from clients according to information regarding prior requests from the client included the requests. When a request is received at a network-based service, information regarding the request, and possibly other prior requests, may be included in response for the request sent to the client. The client may then include that information in a subsequent request to the network-based service. An evaluation of the information may determine a scheduling decision for the request and the request may then be processed according to the scheduling decision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Jacob Adam Gabrielson
  • Identity-based casting of network addresses
    Patent number: 8996607
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media identify a server to a client device. In one implementation, server identification data is stored for a plurality of servers associated with a service. An identifier of a client device is received. One of the plurality of servers is selected to provide the service to the client device, and the server is selected based on the identifier of the client device. The server identification data for the selected server is provided to the client device. The selected server may receive a request to access the service from the client device, and may process the request consistent with state data stored at the selected server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Girish Bansilal Bajaj, Zhi An
  • Network host inference system
    Patent number: 9009305
    Abstract: A system and methods for monitoring and determining agent and network health, having a network monitoring and failure detection system that collects data reports and accumulates a set of data defined in terms of a time window. The network monitoring and failure detection system makes a determination of the agent health during the time window. The network monitoring and failure detection system then processes the collected data based on the determined health. The processing of the collected data can include disregarding the data, weighing the data, filtering the data, using the data in a feedback loop, or processing the data using another method or algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Carlos Vara Callau
  • Smart autoscaling of a cluster for processing a work queue in a distributed system
    Patent number: 10911373
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a method for allocating shared processing resources, comprising the steps of (A) predicting a first amount of processing resources needed to complete each of a plurality of transcoding jobs in a work queue of a project, (B) determining a second amount of processing resources available prior to processing the project and (C) adding processing resources needed to complete the project. The processing resources are added in a fixed number of predetermined processing units. The fixed number of computer resources are added (a) to minimize an overall use of said processing resources needed to complete the project and (b) to complete the project within a target time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Trevor Babcock, Dustin Encelewski
  • Automated reconfiguration of shared network resources
    Patent number: 9466036
    Abstract: A resource manager can adjust the amount of capacity in each of a plurality of resource pools using a combination of proactive and reactive approaches. Targets such as an amount of total capacity and an amount of free capacity can be forecast and periodically compared against actual capacity and usage of the pools. A pool balancing algorithm can be used to shift capacity among pools as needed, in order to provide the targeted amount of capacity for each pool before the capacity is needed. When actual usage varies sufficiently from the forecasted usage on which the targets are based, the resource manager can react by reconfiguring resources as needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Pascal A. Vicaire
  • Customized command execution for a computing resource fleet
    Patent number: 11108702
    Abstract: A virtual computer system management service receives input from a user specifying operations to be performed by a web-based service. The input includes an indication of a set of resources to be used to perform the operations and control information to control the set of resources to perform the operations. The virtual computer system management service configures the resources to perform the operations according to the control information. This causes the set of resources to perform the operations and provide a result. The virtual computer system management service provides this result to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Merlin Twitchell, Amjad Hussain, Sivaprasad Venkata Padisetty
  • Connection re-balancing in distributed storage systems
    Patent number: 9294558
    Abstract: At a particular node of a storage service to which connections have been established on behalf of one or more clients, respective workload indicators are collected from a set of peer nodes of the storage service. A determination is made at the particular node that (a) a local workload metric exceeds a connection rebalancing threshold, and (b) a peer capacity availability criterion has been met. The peer capacity availability criterion may be determined from the respective workload indicators. In response to the determination, a particular client connection is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Pradeep Vincent, Matti Juhani Oikarinen, Douglas Stewart Laurence, Matteo Frigo
  • Managing content delivery network service providers by a content broker
    Patent number: 8122098
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer readable medium for managing network storage provider and CDN service providers are provided. A content broker component obtains client computing device requests for content provided by a content provider. The content broker processes the client computing device requests and determines whether a subsequent request for the resource should be directed to a network storage provider or a CDN service provider as a function of the updated or processed by the content broker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David R. Richardson, Bradley E. Marshall, Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Tal Saraf, Imran S. Patel
  • Spread placement groups
    Patent number: 10536340
    Abstract: A provider network determines which servers to use to host a group of virtual machines for a customer. A placement manager within the provider network employs a placement technique which prioritizes spreading virtual machines for the customer across different “subzones.” A subzone is a logical division of a provider network's hardware and/or software denoting risk boundaries. By placing virtual machines in separate subzones, the customer's virtual machines and thus the task collectively performed by the virtual machines are less impacted by a failure within one of the subzones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Stig Manning, Diwakar Gupta, Marnus Freeman, Georgios Elissaios, Joshua Dawie Mentz, André Mostert
  • Managing content delivery network service providers
    Patent number: 8239514
    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: November 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David R. Richardson, Bradley E. Marshall, Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Tal Saraf
  • Media player social network integration
    Patent number: 8892648
    Abstract: A media player user interface on behalf of a user associated with a user account is generated that has a social network module that includes media updates associated with other users to which the user is linked. Media player actions associated with the user occurring in the media player user interface are also captured, updates are generated and provided to social network modules in a media player user interface associated with other linked users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Durham, Craig Pape, Scott K. Meaker, Erin O. Anderson, Paul William Roberts, Jim L. Dantzler
  • Mapping on-premise network nodes to cloud network nodes
    Patent number: 11870647
    Abstract: A network infrastructure modernization service described herein may allow a customer to migrate the underlying network infrastructure topology and configurations of the on-premises environment onto the cloud environment. By collecting the network infrastructure configurations and/or runtime metrics, generating a network model based on the configurations and/or runtime metrics, and applying modernization rules to the network model to generate a network infrastructure template, the network infrastructure modernization service described in the present application enables the customers to be migrate their on-premises applications as well as the underlying network infrastructure onto the cloud environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jiangtao Zhang, Boyu Wang, Ramu Panayappan
  • Resource planning for computing
    Patent number: 8880676
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for the planning of resources used in computing. Usage statistics regarding one or more virtual machine instances executing in a networked plurality of computing devices are obtained. The usage statistics are grouped, for example, based on one or more customer usage classifications, thereby producing one or more usage groups. A corresponding demand forecast is generated for each of the usage groups. A projected demand for one or more physical components of the networked computing devices is calculated according to the demand forecasts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiao Yu Li, Diwakar Gupta, Akshay Kumar Reddy Katta, Sergey Krasnovsky, Kalyanaraman Prasad
  • Composable machine image
    Patent number: 8966021
    Abstract: A computer system image is executed on a computing node over a network. A system specification file transmitted over the network specifies the computer system image by specifying components of the computer system image. The components include an operating system and at least one resource. The system specification file also contains a signature associated with the resource. A resource is determined to be authorized to be incorporated into the computer system image by verifying the signature. A computer system image can then be formed based on the components specified by the system specification file and executed locally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Nicholas Alexander Allen
  • Pre-fetching a cacheable network resource based on a time-to-live value
    Patent number: 9723053
    Abstract: A system is disclosed that generates page profiles for network pages based on aggregated usage data. The page profile for a given page may, for example, include information regarding specific page generation tasks (e.g., resource requests) that are frequently executed by browsers when the page is loaded. The page profiles may be used by browsers or an intermediary system to preemptively perform selected page generation tasks, thereby reducing perceived page load times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sajeeva Lakmal Bandara Pallemulle, Amit Santosh Jain, Dhruva Lakshmana Rao Batni, Kai Yi Li
  • Managed control plane service
    Patent number: 11941413
    Abstract: At a managed control plane service, end-user application programming interfaces (APIs) of an application to be implemented at a provider network are determined. A set of common operational requirements of the application, to be fulfilled without obtaining program code for the requirements, are identified. In response to an invocation of an end-user API of the application, computations are performed at a resource selected by the managed control plane service, and one or more tasks to satisfy a common operational requirement are initiated by the managed control plane service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Marvin Theimer, Ryan Walter Jason Waite, Atanas Ivanov, Earl Robert Kinney, Jonathan Thompson, Donald Kneath Bushell
  • MANAGING CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK SERVICE PROVIDERS
    Publication number: 20130346621
    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 updates request processing information based on the process requests for content. The network storage provider then makes a recommendation regarding initialization of a CDN service provider as a function of the updated request processing information. Subsequent client computing device requests for resources can be provided to the recommended CDN service provider utilizing alternative resource identifiers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David R. Richardson, Bradley Eugene Marshall, Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Tal Saraf
  • REQUEST ROUTING PROCESSING
    Publication number: 20130246624
    Abstract: Generally described, the present disclosure is directed to managing request routing functionality corresponding to resource requests for one or more resources associated with a content provider. The processing of the DNS requests by the service provider can include the selective filtering of DNS queries associated with a DNS query-based attack. A service provider can assign DNS servers corresponding to a distributed set of network addresses, or portions of network addresses, such that DNS queries exceeding a threshold, such as in DNS query-based attacks, can be filtered in a manner that can mitigate performance impact on for the content provider or service provider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Colm MacCarthaigh, David R. Richardson, Benjamin W.S. Redman