Managing network computing components utilizing request routing
First Claim
1. A system comprising:
- a network point of presence (POP) associated with a content delivery network (CDN) service provider, wherein the network POP includes a domain name system (DNS) server that obtains a DNS query from a client computing device, wherein the DNS query comprises a uniform resource locator (URL), wherein the URL includes an identifier of a hosted virtual machine instance, wherein the identifier is included in a portion of a DNS portion of the URL, and wherein the DNS server in the network POP comprises hardware and is operative to;
parse the DNS portion of the URL to obtain the identifier of the hosted virtual machine instance;
transmit a request for a state of the hosted virtual machine instance to a service provider hosting the hosted virtual machine instance;
obtain information corresponding to availability of the hosted virtual machine instance; and
resolve the DNS query by transmitting, to the client computing device, information associated with the hosted virtual machine instance.
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Abstract
Aspects of the disclosure will be described with regard to the processing of a client computing device DNS queries by a DNS processing service to determine an identifier associated with a previously instantiated hosted virtual machine instance. In one aspect, if the previously instantiated hosted virtual machine instance is instantiated, the DNS service can resolve the DNS query by transmitting network address information associated with the previously instantiated hosted virtual machine instance. In another aspect, if the previously instantiated hosted virtual machine instance is not instantiated, the DNS service can initiate a process to cause an instantiation of a hosted virtual machine instance based on the previously instantiated hosted virtual machine instance. The DNS service can then resolve the DNS query by transmitting network address information, or an alternative identifier, associated with the newly instantiated hosted virtual machine instance.
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22 Claims
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1. A system comprising:
a network point of presence (POP) associated with a content delivery network (CDN) service provider, wherein the network POP includes a domain name system (DNS) server that obtains a DNS query from a client computing device, wherein the DNS query comprises a uniform resource locator (URL), wherein the URL includes an identifier of a hosted virtual machine instance, wherein the identifier is included in a portion of a DNS portion of the URL, and wherein the DNS server in the network POP comprises hardware and is operative to; parse the DNS portion of the URL to obtain the identifier of the hosted virtual machine instance; transmit a request for a state of the hosted virtual machine instance to a service provider hosting the hosted virtual machine instance; obtain information corresponding to availability of the hosted virtual machine instance; and resolve the DNS query by transmitting, to the client computing device, information associated with the hosted virtual machine instance. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method comprising:
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obtaining, by a domain name system (DNS) processing service, a DNS query from a client computing device, wherein the DNS query comprises a uniform resource locator (URL), wherein the URL includes an identifier of a hosted virtual machine instance, and wherein the identifier is included in a DNS portion of the URL; parsing, by the DNS processing service, the DNS portion of the URL to obtain the identifier of the hosted virtual machine instance; transmitting, by the DNS processing service, a request for a state of the hosted virtual machine instance to a service provider hosting the hosted virtual machine instance; obtaining, by the DNS processing service, information corresponding to availability of the hosted virtual machine instance; and resolving, by the DNS processing service, the DNS query by transmitting, to the client computing device, information associated with the hosted virtual machine instance. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A system comprising:
a network point of presence (POP) associated with a content delivery network (CDN) service provider, wherein the network POP includes a DNS server that obtains a DNS query from a client computing device, wherein the DNS query comprises a uniform resource locator (URL), wherein the URL includes an identifier of a hosted virtual machine instance, wherein the identifier is included in a portion of a DNS portion of the URL, and wherein the DNS server in the network POP comprises hardware and is operative to; transmit a request for a state of the hosted virtual machine instance to a service provider hosting the hosted virtual machine instance; obtain information corresponding to availability of the hosted virtual machine instance; and resolve the DNS query by transmitting, to the client computing device, information associated with the hosted virtual machine instance. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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