US 10,855,614 B2 · Managing committed processing rates for shared resources

Abstract

Commitments against various resources can be dynamically adjusted for customers in a shared-resource environment. A customer can provision a data volume with a committed rate of Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS) and pay only for that commitment (plus any overage), for example, as well as the amount of storage requested. The customer can subsequently adjust the committed rate of IOPS by submitting an appropriate request, or the rate can be adjusted automatically based on any of a number of criteria. Data volumes for the customer can be migrated, split, or combined in order to provide the adjusted rate. The interaction of the customer with the data volume does not need to change, independent of adjustments in rate or changes in the data volume, other than the rate at which requests are processed.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving a request to perform a task, on behalf of a client, at a first committed request rate on first shared resources configured for a second committed request rate, wherein the second committed request rate is higher than the first committed request rate, wherein the first shared resources are configured to perform tasks for clients at different committed request rates, and wherein the different committed request rates sum to the second committed request rate;
determining that available capacity in the first shared resources within the second committed request rate is insufficient to perform the task at the first committed request rate;
migrating a data volume associated with the client to a second shared resource configured for a third committed request rate higher than the first committed request rate;
and
performing the task in the second shared resource at least at the first committed request rate.

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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions for adjusting usage of shared resources, the instructions when executed by a processor cause the processor to:

receive a request to perform a task, on behalf of a client, at first committed request rate on first shared resources configured for a second committed request rate, wherein the second committed request rate is higher than the first committed request rate, wherein the first shared resources are configured to perform tasks for clients at different committed request rates, and wherein the different committed request rates sum to the second committed request rate;
determine that available capacity in the first shared resources within the second committed request rate is insufficient to perform the task at the first committed request rate;
migrate a data volume associated with the client to a second shared resource configured for a third committed request rate higher than the first committed request rate;
and
perform the task in the second shared resource at least at the first committed request rate.

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