Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Bhagyalaxmi Bethala

Apolak Borthakur

Ekanth Sethuramalingam

Raviprasad Venkatesha Murthy Mummidi

Hariharan Subramanian

Andrew Bass

Youjiang Wu

Bhaskar Maddala

Dongui Zhuo

Oley Y Palyvoda

Timothy W Schoenharl

Chun-Ning Poon

Remote computing resource service providers allow customers to execute one or more applications in a virtual environment on computer systems provided by the computing resource service provider. The customer applications are generally executed by multiple virtual machine instances working together. The virtual machines may be managed by a hypervisor executing on computer systems operated by the service provider. Different hypervisors may support different features and have different capabilities. Customers may wish to execute the one or more applications on a particular hypervisor in order to utilize certain features. A control plane may be used to facilitate management of the virtual environment by one or more services of the computing resource service provider.

Virtualization infrastructure support

Systems and methods for the removal of expiring items from inventory are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method includes determining a breakeven holding time for an inventory item and calculating, based at least in part on a demand forecast for the inventory item and on the breakeven holding time, a first quantity of the inventory item to be removed from the inventory. The method also includes identifying an expiration time corresponding to the given inventory item and, in response to the expiration time being shorter than the breakeven holding time, calculating a second quantity of the inventory item, where a difference between the second and first quantities represents an additional quantity of the inventory item to be removed from the inventory. The method further includes causing at least one portion of the additional quantity of the inventory item to be removed from the inventory according to an inventory removal function.

Removal of expiring items from inventory

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