AUTOMATED RECONFIGURATION OF SHARED NETWORK RESOURCES

• US 20170026309A1
• Filed: 10/10/2016
• Published: 01/26/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Vicaire, Pascal A.
• Granted Patent: US 9,755,990 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45562 Creating, deleting, cloning virtual machine instances
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/4557 Distribution of virtual machine instances; Migration and load balancing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/5011 Pool
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44 Arrangements for executing specific programs
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5027 the resource being a machine, e.g. CPUs, Servers, Terminals
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5061 Partitioning or combining of resources
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/70 Admission control; Resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

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.

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