Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Bradley E Marshall

Swaminathan Sivasubramanian

David R Richardson

Tate Andrew Certain

Tal Saraf

Christopher Laurence Scofield

Eric Jason Brandwine

Jonathan B Corley

Elmore Eugene Pope

Nicholas J Maniscalco

John David Cormie

Jacob Adam Gabrielson

Piragash Velummylum

Imran S Patel

Craig Wesley Howard

Don Johnson

Harvo Reyzell Jones

Ryan F Watson

Eric B Merritt

Prashanth A Acharya

Lee B Rosen

Ronald James Snyder, Jr

John K Loendorf

Mark Joseph Cavage

Mustafa I Abrar

Colm MacCarthaigh

James J Carrig

Matthew Scott Garman

Sachin Jain

David Alexander Dunlap

Charles D Phillips

Jeffrey Paul Ramsden

Christopher Neil Hawes

David Idris Alexander Sayed

Benjamin W S Redman

Alan Michael Judge

Nathan Dye

Martin Cornelis Frederik Slot

Mauricio Alberto Uribe

Rajesh Shanker Patel

Jonathan Robert Collins

Timothy James Davis

David Sayed

Chris Hawes

Jim Carrig

Jeff Ramsden

Luis Felipe Cabrera

Jonathan A Jenkins

Brett Richard Taylor

Swaminathan Sivasuramanian

Richard A Sheehan

A transcoding service is described that is capable optimizing media transcoding jobs according to the licensing model associated with a particular transcoder being utilized. The service can receive a request to transcode the media content from a user and inspect an SLA to determine the parameters for the transcoding job, such as the time interval to complete the job or the price of performing the job. The service can then identify a licensing cost associated with transcoding the media content. For example, the licensing cost being based at least in part on a number of running instances of the transcoder. The transcoding service may apply a weight to the licensing cost when prioritizing the transcoding jobs. For example, the service may determine an optimal number of concurrently executing transcoder instances to utilize to reduce the licensing costs associated with the transcoding jobs.

Optimizing media transcoding based on licensing models

A system and method for management and processing of resource requests is provided. A content delivery network service provider receives a DNS query from a client computing device. The DNS query corresponds to a requested resource from the client computing device. The content delivery network service provider associates the client computing device with a cluster of other client computing devices. Based on routing information for the cluster, the content delivery network service provider routes the DNS query. The process can further include monitoring performance data associated with the delivery of the requested resource and updating the routing information for the cluster based on the performance data for use in processing subsequent requests from client computing devices in the cluster.

Request routing based on class

A system, method, and computer-readable medium for updating request routing information associated with client location information are provided. A content delivery network service provider receives a DNS query from a client computing device. The DNS query corresponds to a resource identifier for requested content from the client computing device. The content delivery network service provider obtains a query IP address corresponding to the client computing device. Based on routing information associated with the query IP address, the content delivery network service provider routes the DNS query. The process further includes monitoring performance data associated with the transmission of the requested resource and updating routing information associated with the query IP address based on the performance data for use in processing subsequent requests from the client computing device.

Updating routing information based on client location

Techniques are described for managing preloading of data for client computing systems. A client computing system may provide one or more persistent data storage caches on local storage, such as to support a particular software program executing on the client computing system (e.g., a Web browser program, with the persistent data storage cache designed to store browser cookies and other data for later access by the Web browser program). Additional data may be stored in such a persistent data storage cache by preloading those data groups before they are requested by the client computing system (e.g., based on interactions of a user of the client computing system with an executing program on the client computing system). Particular data groups to preload may be selected in various manners, including to provide a specified type of minimum functionality to a client computing system based on the preloaded data groups.

Managing preloading of data on client systems

Techniques are described for managing communications for a managed virtual computer network overlaid on a distinct substrate computer network, including for communications involving computing nodes of the managed virtual computer network that use an alternative addressing scheme to direct network packets and other network communications to intended destination locations by using textual network node monikers instead of numeric IP addresses to represent computing nodes at a layer 3 or 'network layer' of a corresponding computer networking stack in use by the computing nodes. The techniques are provided without modifying or configuring the network devices of the substrate computer network, by using configured modules to manage and modify communications from the logical edge of the substrate network.

Managing communications using alternative packet addressing

A system, method, and computer-readable medium for updating request routing information associated with client location information are provided. A content delivery network service provider receives a DNS query from a client computing device. The DNS query corresponds to a resource identifier for requested content from the client computing device. The content delivery network service provider obtains a query IP address corresponding to the client computing device. Based on routing information associated with the query IP address, the content delivery network service provider routes the DNS query. The process further includes monitoring performance data associated with the transmission of the requested resource and updating routing information associated with the query IP address based on the performance data for use in processing subsequent requests form the client computing device.

At an object storage service, one or more security rules to be implemented for a request directed to an unstructured object are identified, including a content query-based rule. The query-based rule indicates a query predicate and a security enforcement action. A value of an attribute is extracted from the unstructured object using a rule obtained via a programmatic interface, and used to verify that the predicate is satisfied. The security enforcement action is then implemented.

Multi-faceted security framework for unstructured storage objects

A system and method for content distribution are provided. A content provider generates a network topology having one or more subnetworks made up of content sources. The content provider segments content, such as applications, into segments for distribution. The content provider then distributes the content such that for each identified subnetwork, each content segment is distributed to a content source. Subsequent, client computing device requests for content can be serviced by selecting a content source in a particular subnetwork selected for delivering the requested content to the client computing device to minimize traffic flow of the requested content through the nodes of the distribution network.

Locality based content distribution

A number of approaches for transcoding media is described, which allow various users to control one or more aspects of transcoding (e.g. bit rate, resolution) when delivering media content to a client device from a network edge server or other location. The client device is provided with an interface that allows the user to increase or decrease the resolution, bit rate or other settings of the media content. Upon receiving a request from the user, the system transcodes the media content in accordance with the request and dynamically delivers the transcoded media content to the user's device. The system also enables content publishers and network operators to impose restrictions (e.g. minimum and maximum values for various settings) on user control.

Controlling dynamic media transcoding

A request to copy at least a portion of a first network that includes a first set of devices is received, the request including one or more filtering criteria, with at least one of the one or more filtering criteria specifying a tag assigned to a device of the first set of devices. At least the portion of the first network is copied by causing the system to create, according to the one or more filtering criteria, a second network by causing a second set of devices to be configured to be duplicative of devices of the first set of devices that are assigned the tag specified by the filtering criteria.

Techniques for network replication

A transcoding service is described that is capable of transcoding or otherwise processing content, such as video, audio or multimedia content, by utilizing one or more pipelines. A pipeline can enable a user to submit transcoding jobs (or other processing jobs) into an available pipeline, where a transcoding service (or other such service) assigns one or more computing resources to process the jobs received to each pipeline. The transcoding service and the pipelines can be provided by at least one service provider (e.g., a cloud computing provider) or other such entity to a plurality of customers. A service provider can also provide the computing resources (e.g., servers, virtual machines, etc.) used to process the transcoding jobs from the pipelines.

Securing content using pipelines

A system and method is described for enabling a user to add extensions to one or more of the preconfigured workflows for processing media content. The extensions can comprise a custom task that is injected at a specified entry point in the preconfigured workflow, such as after completion of a particular task. The custom task injected into the workflow can perform a variety of processing jobs, such as adding digital rights management (DRM), allowing access to the media content by third parties, injecting advertisements or other content into the media, checking the media content for errors or viruses, and the like. The custom task may also instruct the workflow to delegate access to the media content to external third party services. When the preconfigured workflow reaches the specified entry point, the workflow may be suspended until the custom task is completed, at which point the preconfigured workflow may resume.

Extensible workflows for processing content

Resource management techniques, such as cache optimization, are employed to organize resources within caches such that the most requested content (e.g., the most popular content) is more readily available. A service provider utilizes content expiration data as indicative of resource popularity. As resources are requested, the resources propagate through a cache server hierarchy associated with the service provider. More frequently requested resources are maintained at edge cache servers based on shorter expiration data that is reset with each repeated request. Less frequently requested resources are maintained at higher levels of a cache server hierarchy based on longer expiration data associated with cache servers higher on the hierarchy.

Managing resources using resource expiration data

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Bradley E Marshall