Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Gavin Alexander Bramhill

Andries Petrus Johannes Dippenaar

Mathew Daniel

Richard Alan Hamman

Duncan Matthew Clough

Gideon Jan-Wessel Redelinghuys

Marcin Piotr Kowalski

Roland Alexander Paterson-Jones

Almero Gouws

Gideon Klompje

Roland Paterson-Jones

Martin Stephen Van Tonder

Alexander Emmanuel Kafui Mallet

Methods and apparatus for client-directed placement of remotely configured service instances are described. One or more placement target options are selected for a client of a network-accessible service based on criteria such as service characteristics of the placement targets. The selected options, including a particular placement target that includes instance hosts configurable from remote control servers, are indicated programmatically to the client. A determination is made that a service instance is to be configured at the particular placement target on behalf of the client. A remote control server is configured to issue administrative commands to an instance host at the particular placement target to configure the service instance.

Client-directed placement of remotely-configured service instances

A network-based data store maintaining storage volumes for file systems at storage clients may implement dynamic storage volume scaling. A scaling event may be detected according to a specified scaling policy for a storage volume maintained at a network-based data store that is mounted at a storage client and configured for a file system. In a least some embodiments, the scaling policy for the storage volume may be received from the storage client. In response to detecting the storage event, storage maintaining the storage volume may be modified according to the scaling policy to scale the storage volume. An indication of the scaling event may be sent to the storage client in order to update the file system at the storage client so that the file system may utilize the scaled storage volume.

Dynamic scaling of storage volumes for storage client file systems

Techniques described and suggested herein include systems and methods for updating, adding, deleting, managing, and otherwise manipulating instance data across multiple virtual instances in an addressable fashion. For example, a customer may control or otherwise be associated with a fleet of virtual instances running on one or more hosts of a computing resource service provider. The described techniques enable customers, or other entities, to update instance data related to arbitrarily defined groups of the fleet using, e.g., tags or other common identifiers, so as to, e.g., alter operational characteristics of some or all of a given fleet of virtual instances without necessitating individual alteration of each instance.

Techniques for managing virtual instance data in multitenant environments

Method and apparatus for activating a computing instance are disclosed. In the method and apparatus, a computing instance is activated if received traffic addressed to the computing instance is determined to satisfy one or more conditions for computing instance activation. Following activation, the data may be sent to the computing instance for processing.

Criterion-based computing instance activation

A method of moving a virtual machine instance (VMI) from a first to a second host server computer in a multi-tenant network environment may include determining resources of the first host server computer running the VMI, acquiring state information for at least one of the resources used by the VMI while running on the first server computer, generating a plurality of migration profiles at different time points for the VMI using the determined resources and the acquired state information, receiving a selection of one of the plurality of migration profiles, terminating running of the VMI on the first host server computer, and launching the VMI on the second host server computer using the state information within the selected one of the plurality of migration profiles so as to move the VMI from the first to the second host server computer.

Moving virtual machines using migration profiles

Systems and methods for providing on-demand diagnostics in a virtual environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method comprises storing a list of approved diagnostic tests. A diagnostic service can be running in the multi-tenant environment. The diagnostic service can receive a request to run a selected diagnostic test from the list of approved diagnostic tests on one or more hardware resources in the virtual environment. In response to the request, the selected diagnostic test can be transmitted to the one or more hardware resources.

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Cape Town, South Africa

Gavin Alexander Bramhill