Method and system for dynamic pricing of web services utilization
AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.
InventorsAllan H. Vermeulen, Jeffrey P. Bezos
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Abstract
A method and system for dynamic pricing of web services utilization. According to one embodiment, a method may include dynamically predicting utilization of a web services computing resource that is expected to occur during a given interval of time, and dependent upon the dynamically predicted utilization, setting a price associated with utilization of the web services computing resource occurring during the given interval of time. The method may further include providing the price to a customer.
Claims27
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- an enterprise-side computer system of an enterprise dynamically predicting the enterprise's own utilization of a portion of a capacity of a computing resource that is expected to occur during a given interval of time, wherein the portion of the computing resource's capacity that is subject to the enterprise's own utilization is not available for utilization by any entity other than the enterprise;
- dependent upon said dynamically predicted utilization, said enterprise-side computer system setting a price associated with utilization of a spare portion of the capacity of said computing resource by an entity other than the enterprise occurring during said given interval of time, wherein the spare portion of the capacity is predicted not to be subject to the enterprise's own utilization;
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- said enterprise-side computer system electronically providing said price to a client-side computer system associated with a customer, wherein the client-side computer system is external to the enterprise.
A non-transitory computer-accessible storage medium that stores program instructions, wherein the program instructions are executable by an enterprise-side computer system of an enterprise to:
- dynamically predict the enterprise's own utilization of a portion of a capacity of a computing resource that is expected to occur during a given interval of time, wherein the portion of the computing resource's capacity that is subject to the enterprise's own utilization is not available for utilization by any entity other than the enterprise;
- dependent upon said dynamically predicted utilization, set a price associated with utilization of a spare portion of the capacity of said computing resource by an entity other than the enterprise occurring during said given interval of time, wherein the spare portion of the capacity is predicted not to be subject to the enterprise's own utilization;
- and
- provide said price to a client-side computer system associated with a customer, wherein the client-side computer system is external to the enterprise.
A system, comprising:
- a system memory;
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- a processor coupled to said system memory and configured to execute program instructions, wherein the system memory and processor are included within an enterprise-side computer system of an enterprise, and wherein the program instructions are executable to:
- dynamically predict the enterprise's own utilization of a portion of a capacity of a computing resource that is expected to occur during a given interval of time, wherein the portion of the computing resource's capacity that is subject to the enterprise's own utilization is not available for utilization by any entity other than the enterprise;
- dependent upon said dynamically predicted utilization, set a price associated with utilization of a spare portion of the capacity of said computing resource by an entity other than the enterprise occurring during said given interval of time, wherein the spare portion of the capacity is predicted not to be subject to the enterprise's own utilization;
- and
- provide said price to a client-side computer system associated with a customer, wherein the client-side computer system is external to the enterprise.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.