US 11,777,867 B2Granted

Managing committed request rates for shared resources

AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.

InventorsTate Andrew Certain, Roland Paterson-Jones, James R. Hamilton, Sachin Jain, Matthew S. Garman, David N. Sunderland, Danny Wei, Fiorenzo Cattaneo

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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.

Claims20

Dependent claims

An improved method for providing shared resources in a shared-resource environment, comprising:

receiving a provision request to provision a data volume, the data volume having a performance tier, the performance tier associated with a first committed processing rate of input/output (I/O) operations per second (IOPS);
in response to the provision request, identifying automatically an initial one or more shared resources from a plurality of shared resources with sufficient capacity to provide the first committed processing rate of IOPS;
in response to identifying automatically the initial one or more shared resources, provisioning the data volume onto the initial one or more shared resources;
attaching the data volume to a virtual machine;
receiving a request to change the performance tier of the data volume to a second performance tier associated with a second committed processing rate of IOPS that is different from the first committed processing rate of IOPS;
in response to the request to change the performance tier, determining automatically that one or more of the plurality of shared resources on which the data volume is currently provisioned have sufficient capacity to provide the second committed processing rate of IOPS;
in response to determining automatically that the one or more of the plurality of shared resources on which the data volume is currently provisioned have sufficient capacity, changing the performance tier of the data volume to the second performance tier;
and
performing one or more computing tasks by accessing the data volume at the second committed processing rate of IOPS.

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An improved method for providing shared resources in a shared-resource environment, comprising:

receiving a provision request to provision a data volume, the data volume having a performance tier, the performance tier associated with a first committed processing rate of input/output (I/O) operations per second (IOPS);
in response to the provision request, identifying automatically an initial one or more shared resources from a plurality of shared resources with sufficient capacity to provide the first committed processing rate of IOPS;
in response to identifying automatically the initial one or more shared resources, provisioning the data volume onto the initial one or more shared resources;
attaching the data volume to a virtual machine;
receiving a request to change the performance tier of the data volume to a second performance tier associated with a second committed processing rate of IOPS that is different from the first committed processing rate of IOPS;
in response to the request to change the performance tier, determining automatically that one or more of the plurality of shared resources on which the data volume is currently provisioned does not have sufficient capacity to provide the second committed processing rate of IOPS;
in response to determining automatically that the one or more of the plurality of shared resources on which the data volume is currently provisioned does not have sufficient capacity, identifying automatically a second one or more shared resources with sufficient capacity to provide the second committed processing rate of IOPS;
in response to identifying automatically the second one or more shared resources, migrating automatically at least a portion of the data volume to at least one of the second one or more shared resources;
in response to migrating automatically the portion of the data volume to the at least one of the second one or more shared resources, changing the performance tier of the data volume to the second performance tier;
and
performing one or more computing tasks by accessing the data volume at the second processing rate of IOPS.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/808,965Filed 24 Jun 2022 · continuation
Priority: 29 Mar 2010
Published: US 2023/0145078 A111 May 2023
Granted: 3 Oct 2023
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

G06Q 30/0284
Price estimation or determination: time or distance, e.g. usage of parking meters or taximeters
G06Q 10/00
Administration
G06Q 30/04
Commerce: billing or invoicing
H04L 47/83
Admission control; Resource allocation: based on usage prediction

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