Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Jaco Joubert

Murtaza Muidul Huda Chowdhury

Ramapulla Reddy Chennuru

Ankit Kumar Jain

Srinivasan Ramkumar

Niti S Khadapkar

Anup P Pandya

Anupama Anand

Siddharth Padmanabhan Ramanarayanan

Techniques for automated defragmentation of licensed resources in a provider network are described. A defragmentation service in a provider network can detect the existence of intra-host fragmentation and/or inter-host fragmentation among host computing devices belonging to a host resource group of hosts dedicated to particular users. The defragmentation service can cause instances to be migrated to new locations within the host resource group to reduce or eliminate the fragmentation, allowing for hosts to beneficially be removed from the host resource group. The defragmentation service may determine which instances to be moved based on considerations involving software licenses associated with the host computing devices.

Defragmentation of licensed resources in a provider network

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Cape Town, South Africa

Jaco Joubert