US 12,008,390 B1Granted

Persistent execution environment

AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.

InventorsThomas Albert Faulhaber, Jonathan Esterhazy, Vladimir Zhukov, Stefano Stefani

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Abstract

Methods and apparatus for providing persistent execution environments for computation systems including but not limited to interactive computation systems. A service is provided that extends the notion of static containers to dynamically changing execution environments into which users can install code, add files, etc. The execution environments are monitored, and changes to an execution environment are automatically persisted to environment versions(s) so that code run in the execution environment can be run later or elsewhere simply by referring to the environment. There is no explicit build step for the user. Instead, incremental changes are added to environment versions which are stored and are ready to be used to instantiate respective execution environments on other compute instances.

Claims17

Dependent claims

A system, comprising:

one or more processors and corresponding memory, on a network, configured to implement a computation service configured to:
receive an indication of an execution environment from a user interface via an application programming interface (API) to the computation service;
and
in response to the indication:
allocate a compute instance for the environment on a host device, comprising one or more other processors and corresponding memory, on the network;
and
instantiate a host agent and a web server on the compute instance, wherein the one or more other processors and corresponding memory is configured to, via the host agent:
instantiate the execution environment on the compute instance, wherein the instantiated execution environment is for an environment interface displayed by the user interface, wherein the execution environment comprises a container as a base layer and one or more additional layers, wherein the environment interface is configured to interact with the execution environment through the web server on the compute instance to execute code within the container;
and
instantiate a monitoring agent, distinct from the host agent, on the compute instance, wherein the one or more other processors and corresponding memory is configured to, via the monitoring agent monitor the execution environment on the compute instance to detect one or more changes in the execution environment caused by the environment interface interactions with the execution environment;
wherein the one or more processors and corresponding memory are configured to, based on an indication of the one or more changes in the execution environment;
generate a new environment version that includes the one or more changes;
and
store the new environment version that includes the one or more detected changes in the execution environment caused by the interactions with the execution environment;
and
wherein the one or more processors and corresponding memory are configured to instantiate a new environment from the stored new environment version.

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A method, comprising:

performing, by a computation service implemented by one or more devices on a network:
responsive to receipt of an indication of an execution environment from a user interface via an application programming interface (API) to the computation service:
allocating a compute instance on a host device on the network;
instantiating a host agent and a web server on the compute instance;
instantiating the execution environment on the compute instance, wherein the instantiated execution environment is for an environment interface displayed by a user interface, wherein the execution environment comprises a container as a base layer and one or more additional layers, and wherein the environment interface is configured to interact with the execution environment through the web server on the compute instance to execute code within the container;
and
instantiating a monitoring agent, distinct from the host agent, on the compute instance;
monitoring, by the monitoring agent, interactions with the execution environment received over the network from an interface to the computation service;
detecting, by the monitoring agent, one or more changes in the execution environment caused by the interactions with the execution environment over the network from the interface to the computation service;
generating, in response to an indication of the one or more changes in the execution environment, a new environment version for the execution environment that includes the one or more detected changes in the execution environment caused by the interactions with the execution environment;
storing the new environment version that includes the one or more detected changes in the execution environment caused by the interactions with the execution environment;
and
instantiating a new environment from the stored new environment version.

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One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing program instructions that when executed on or across one or more processors cause the one or more processors to:

responsive to receipt of an indication of an execution environment from a user interface via an application programming interface (API) to a computation service:
allocate a compute instance on a host device on a network to an execution environment for a computation service;
and
instantiate a host agent and a web server on the compute instance;
build the execution environment on the compute instance according to an environment version for the execution environment stored on the network, wherein the built execution environment is for an environment interface displayed by a user interface, wherein the execution environment comprises a container as a base layer and one or more additional layers, and wherein the environment interface is configured to interact with the execution environment through the web server on the compute instance to execute code within the container;
instantiate a monitoring agent, distinct from the host agent, on the compute instance;
monitor, by the monitoring agent, interactions with the execution environment received over the network from an interface to the computation service;
and
detect, by the monitoring agent, one or more changes to the execution environment caused by the interactions with the execution environment over the network from the interface to the computation service;
generate, in response to said detect the one or more changes in the execution environment, a new environment version for the execution environment that includes the one or more detected changes in the execution environment caused by the interactions with the execution environment;
store the new environment version that includes the one or more detected changes in the execution environment caused by the interactions with the execution environment;
and
instantiate a new environment from the stored new environment version.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/699,488Filed 29 Nov 2019
Granted: 11 Jun 2024
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G06F 9/45558
Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors: hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
G06F 9/54
Multiprogramming arrangements: interprogram communication
G06F 2009/45562
Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects: creating, deleting, cloning virtual machine instances
G06F 2009/45591
Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects: monitoring or debugging support

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