US 2018/0324247 A1Published application

Coordinating inter-region operations in provider network environments

AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.

InventorsLogan Michael Hood, Jonathan Galentine, Vincent Gerard Nicotra

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Abstract

Methods and apparatus for coordinating inter-region operations in provider networks. An inter-region coordinator (IRC) operates asynchronously to the control planes of regional networks to coordinate inter-region operations. The IRC in a region may include one or more IRC servers. To perform inter-region operations, the servers may implement a local-remote-local method in which a server invokes an API in the local region to get work, sends the work to a control plane of a remote region, receives a response from the remote region, and informs the control plane in the local region of the status of the work.

Claims21

Dependent claims

A provider network, comprising;

two or more regional networks each comprising:
one or more virtual private networks each including one or more virtual machines executing on host devices on its respective regional network;
a control plane implemented by one or more devices that performs network configuration and management for its respective regional network;
and
an inter-region coordinator (IRC) service comprising one or more IRC servers;
wherein the control plane of a first regional network of the two or more regional networks further performs:
receive an inter-region peering request from a customer for a first virtual private network on the first regional network via a peering application programming interface (API) of the first regional network, wherein the inter-region peering request specifies a second virtual private network on a second regional network of the two or more regional networks;
and
generate a create peering record in an inter-region work log on the first regional network for the inter-region peering request;
wherein one of the IRC servers on the first regional network performs:
obtain the create peering record for the inter-region peering request from the inter-region work log on the first regional network via an API to the inter-region work log;
send the create peering record to the control plane of the second regional network according to an API to the control plane of the second regional network;
receive a response to the inter-region peering request indicated by the create peering record from the second regional network, wherein the response indicates that the inter-region peering request is pending acceptance;
and
send the response to the inter-region peering request to the control plane of the first regional network via an API to the control plane of the first regional network.

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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program instructions that when executed on one or more computers on a regional network of a provider network cause the one or more computers to:

obtain work items from an inter-region work log on the regional network, wherein the work items are generated by a control plane of the regional network in response to requests to perform inter-region operations with one or more other regional networks of the provider network, wherein each work item specifies an inter-region operation and one of the one or more other regional networks of the provider network;
forward the work items to application programming interfaces (APIs) of the control planes of the one or more other regional networks as specified by the work items;
receive responses to the work items from the regional networks specified by the work items, wherein the responses indicate status of respective inter-region operations on the respective regional networks;
and
forward the responses to the control plane of the regional network according to an API of the control plane.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/587,280Filed 4 May 2017
Published: 8 Nov 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

H04L 41/5006
Managing SLA; Interaction between SLA and QoS: creating or negotiating SLA contracts, guarantees or penalties
H04L 12/46
Characterised by path configuration, e.g. LAN [Local Area Networks] or WAN [Wide Area Networks]: interconnection of networks
H04L 12/4641
Interconnection of networks: virtual LANs, VLANs, e.g. virtual private networks [VPN]
H04L 67/1091
Using cross-functional networking aspects: interfacing with client-server systems or between P2P systems

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