US 2014/0181677 A1 · COST TRACKING FOR VIRTUAL CONTROL PLANES

Abstract

Control planes of virtual resource providers may be customized in a secure, stable and efficient manner with virtual control planes. Control planes may be modularized. Control plane modules may be supplied with data from standardized sensors, and required to generate standardized resource configuration requests responsive to solicitations with specified response latencies. Custom control plane modules may be selected to replace or complement default control plane modules. Financial and computational costs associated with control plane modules may be tracked. Competing resource configurations may be mediated by a control plane supervisor. Such mediation may be based on control plane module reputation scores. Reputation scores may be based on customer feedback ratings and/or measured performance with respect to module goals. Mediated configuration parameter values may be based on a combination of competing configuration parameter values weighted according to reputation. Contribution of individual modules to goal achievement may be tracked and rewarded accordingly.

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A computer-implemented method for tracking costs associated with virtual control planes, comprising:

under control of one or more computer systems configured with executable instructions,
providing virtual resources provisioned to use physical hardware resources of a virtual resource provider;
providing a plurality of control planes within the virtual resource provider that perform management of at least some of the virtual resources, each of the control planes implemented by one or more of a plurality of control plane modules;
establishing a custom virtual control plane that performs management of two or more of the virtual resources within the virtual resource provider;
receiving a first set of resource configuration requests from the custom virtual control plane, the first set of resource configuration requests specifying at least one configuration for a set of virtual resources maintained with the physical hardware resources;
mediating the first set of resource configuration requests with respect to a second set of resource configuration requests received from other of the plurality of control planes, the first and second sets of resource configuration requests at times competing with respect to the physical hardware resources;
determining at least one cost to operate said at least one custom virtual control plane during the period of time based at least in part on at least a mediated subset of the first set of resource configuration requests;
and
generating for display a user a presentation of the at least one cost to maintain the virtual control plane.

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A computer-implemented method for tracking costs associated with virtual control planes, comprising:

providing virtual resources provisioned to use physical hardware resources of a virtual resource provider;
providing a plurality of control planes within the virtual resource provider that perform management of at least some of the virtual resources, each of the control planes implemented by one or more of a plurality of control plane modules;
receiving a set of resource configuration requests from a virtual control plane of a virtual resource provider, the set of resource configuration requests associated with a set of resource configuration goals with respect to a set of the virtual resources;
configuring the set of virtual resources based at least in part on the set of resource configuration requests;
determining at least one value of a set of performance metrics corresponding to the set of resource configuration goals;
and
determining at least one cost associated with the virtual control plane based at least in part on said at least one value of the set of performance metrics.

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