US 9,323,577 B2Granted

Automated profiling of resource usage

AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.

InventorsMichael David Marr, Matthew D. Klein

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Abstract

Operating profiles for consumers of computing resources may be automatically determined based on an analysis of actual resource usage measurements and other operating metrics. Measurements may be taken while a consumer, such as a virtual machine instance, uses computing resources, such as those provided by a host. A profile may be dynamically determined based on those measurements. Profiles may be generalized such that groups of consumers with similar usage profiles are associated with a single profile. Assignment decisions may be made based on the profiles, and computing resources may be reallocated or oversubscribed if the profiles indicate that the consumers are unlikely to fully utilize the resources reserved for them. Oversubscribed resources may be monitored, and consumers may be transferred to different resource providers if contention for resources is too high.

Claims29

Dependent claims

A system for profiling computing resource usage, the system comprising:

one or more processors;
a computer-readable memory;
and
a management module comprising executable instructions stored in the computer-readable memory, the management module, when executed by the one or more processors, configured to:
obtain at least one measurement of usage of a first computing resource over at least a portion of a lifecycle of a virtual machine instance, wherein the at least one measurement of total usage is associated with at least a first instance of a virtual machine instance configuration, and wherein the usage of the first computing resource varies over at least the portion of the lifecycle of the virtual machine instance;
calculate, based at least in part on the at least one measurement of total usage, an expected amount of usage of the first computing resource over a lifecycle of a virtual machine instance, wherein the expected amount of usage is associated with the virtual machine instance configuration, and wherein the expected amount of usage varies over the lifecycle of the virtual machine instance;
and
receive a request for initialization of a second instance of the virtual machine instance configuration;
and
in response to the request;
identify a computing device of a plurality of computing devices based at least on whether an available amount of the first computing resource on the computing device is greater than the expected amount over the lifecycle of the virtual machine instance;
and
cause, at least in part, the second instance to be initialized on the computing device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/623,845Filed 20 Sep 2012
Published: US 2014/0082165 A120 Mar 2014
Granted: 26 Apr 2016
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Classification5 codes

H04L 67/1008
Server selection for load balancing: based on parameters of servers, e.g. available memory or workload
G06F 9/5044
The resource being a machine, e.g. CPUs, Servers, Terminals: considering hardware capabilities
H04L 41/0806
Configuration setting: for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play
H04L
Digital communication