Resource management

US10997538B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC. · US

Inventors

• Santosh Chandrachood · Saratoga, US
• Gayatri Ramesh Deo · Mountain View, US
• Ankit Kamboj · Seattle, US
• Lukasz Misiuda · Redmond, US
• Amit Purohit · Issaquah, US
• Aravind Ramarathinam · Redmond, US
• Ramkumar Kamalapuram Sugavanam · Bothell, US
• Vinayak Thapliyal · Seattle, US
• Linchi Zhang · Seattle, US
• Min Jun Zhou · Sunnyvale, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 21, 2017
• Grant date: May 4, 2021
• Expiry date: Apr 10, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/0202
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system operated by a computing resource service provider maintains a pool of computing resources for use in processing job requests submitted by customers. The system allocates computing resources to the pool in anticipation of future resource needs. In various embodiments, future resource needs can be estimated based on scheduled jobs, or historical job information. In an embodiment, the computing resources are virtual computer systems which may be arranged in a cluster. In response to receiving a parallel processing job from a customer, the system reserves computing resources from the pool for performing the job. In an embodiment, the reserved resources are configured with a network namespace that is able to access to a customer's resources.