Compute instance workload monitoring and placement

A computer program product for deploying compute instances for processing a workload, the computer program product comprising:

• one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media and program instructions stored on the one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media, the program instructions comprising:
• receiving a workload to be processed;
• determining an architecture for a compute instance that is required to process the workload, wherein the compute instance is an instance of computer system being spawned from a computing device;
• setting growth rules for the compute instance, wherein the growth rules determines when the number of compute instances needs to be increased or decreased;
• deploying the compute instance to process the workload;
• monitoring a demand for the deployed compute instance to process the workload;
• and
• automatically increasing or decreasing the number of deployed compute instances, based on the monitored demand for the deployed compute instances and the growth rules for the compute instances.

A computer system for deploying virtual machines for processing a workload, the computer system comprising:

• one or more computer processors, one or more computer-readable storage media, and program instructions stored on one or more of the computer-readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more processors, the program instructions comprising:
• receiving a workload to be processed;
• determining an architecture for a compute instance that is required to process the workload, wherein the compute instance is an instance of computer system being spawned from a computing device;
• setting growth rules for the compute instance, wherein the growth rules determines when the number of compute instances needs to be increased or decreased;
• deploying the compute instance to process the workload;
• monitoring a demand for the deployed compute instance to process the workload;
• and
• automatically increasing or decreasing the number of deployed compute instances, based on the monitored demand for the deployed compute instances and the growth rules for the compute instances.