Managing content delivery network service providers

• US 9,515,949 B2
• Filed: 10/24/2013
• Issued: 12/06/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Saraf, Tal Sr., Richardson, David R., Marshall, Bradley Eugene, Sivasubramanian, Swaminathan
• Primary Examiner(s): SALL, EL HADJI MALICK
• Application Number:
  US14/062,614
• Publication Number:
  US 20140052865A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,139 Days
• Field of Search: 709/220, 709/223, 709/226
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/70 Admission control; Resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1023 based on a hash applied to IP addresses or costs
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]

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.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for managing resource requests comprising:

obtaining, from a client computing device, a domain name system (DNS) query for a resource maintained by a network storage provider on behalf of a content provider; and

in response to the DNS query;

determining, at a DNS server, a total number of prior requests for the resource; and

transmitting one of a resource identifier corresponding to a content delivery network (CDN) service provider or an IP address of a storage component associated with the network storage provider, wherein selection of the resource identifier or the IP address for transmission is determined based at least in part on the total number of prior requests for the resource.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein transmitting one of a resource identifier corresponding to a CDN service provider or an IP address of a storage component associated with the network storage provider is further based at least in part on at least one other request routing criterion.

3. The method as recited in claim 2, wherein the at least one other request routing criterion includes trends regarding an increase in requests from client computing devices for the resource and trends regarding a decrease in requests from client computing devices for the resource.

4. The method as recited in claim 2, wherein the at least one other request routing criterion includes cost information.

5. The method as recited in claim 4, wherein the cost information includes financial cost information attributable to the content provider.

6. The method as recited in claim 4, wherein transmitting one of an alternative resource identifier corresponding to a CDN service provider or an IP address of a storage component associated with the network storage provider includes determining a service provider associated with a lowest financial cost for providing the requested resource.

7. The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising causing the registration of a CDN service provider such that the CDN service provider will begin providing the resource.

8. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the alternative resource identifier corresponds to a CNAME.

9. A computer-implemented method comprising:

as implemented by one or more computing devices associated with a network storage provider and configured with specific executable instructions, the network storage provider maintaining resources on behalf of a content provider,

obtaining a DNS query from a client computing device, the DNS query corresponding to a request for a resource; and

providing, by a DNS server associated with the network storage provider, an alternative resource identifier responsive to the DNS query, the alternative resource identifier associated with a content delivery network (CDN) service provider and selected based at least in part on a volume of request information corresponding to the requested resource; and

wherein the alternative resource identifier is provided as an alternative to identifying an IP address of a storage component of the network storage service provider.

10. The method as recited in claim 9, wherein the volume of request information includes at least one of a total number of requests obtained from client computing devices for the requested resource over a defined period of time, trends regarding an increase in requests from client computing devices for the requested resource, and trends regarding a decrease in requests from client computing devices for the requested resource.

11. The method as recited in claim 9 further comprising causing the registration of a CDN service provider such that the CDN service provider will begin providing the requested resource.

12. The method as recited in claim 9, wherein the alternative resource identifier corresponds to a CNAME.

13. A system comprising:

one or more computing devices associated with a network storage provider, the one or more computing devices operative to;

obtain a domain name system (DNS) query from a client computing device, the DNS query corresponding to a request for a resource maintained by the network storage provider on behalf of a content provider; and

in response to the DNS query;

determine a volume of request information corresponding to the requested resource;

select, at a DNS server associated with the network storage provider, a resource identifier associated with a content delivery network (CDN) service provider based at least in part on the determined volume of request information corresponding to the requested resource; and

provide the selected resource identifier, wherein the selected resource identifier is provided as an alternative to identifying an IP address associated with the network storage provider.

14. The system as recited in claim 13, wherein the volume of request information includes a total number of requests obtained from client computing devices for the requested resource over a defined period of time.

15. The system as recited in claim 13, wherein the volume of request information includes trends regarding an increase in requests from client computing devices for the requested resource.

16. The system as recited in claim 13, wherein the volume of request information includes trends regarding a decrease in requests from client computing devices for the requested resource.

17. The system as recited in claim 13, wherein providing the selected resource identifier corresponding to a CDN service provider is further based on at least one other request routing criterion.

18. The system as recited in claim 17, wherein the at least one other request routing criterion comprises at least one of financial cost information or quality of service information.

19. The system as recited in claim 13, wherein the one or more computing devices is further operative to cause the registration of the CDN service provider such that the CDN service provider will begin providing the requested resource.

20. The system as recited in claim 19, wherein the registration of the CDN service provider is completed automatically without requiring additional interaction from the content provider.

21. The system as recited in claim 13, wherein the selected resource identifier corresponds to a CNAME.

22. The system as recited in claim 13, wherein the resource corresponds to an embedded resource.