Amazon Technologies, Inc.

James A G Greenfield

Diwakar Gupta

Eric Paul Wei

Paul C Schattauer

Eric Jason Brandwine

Andrew Bruce Dickinson

Robert Lockhart Reid

Disclosed are various embodiments for allocating computing resources. A request to allocate a computing resource in a collection of networked computing devices is obtained. It is determined whether the request can be fulfilled according to a current configuration of the networked computing devices. A reconfiguration of one or more of the networked computing devices to a different configuration is initiated in order to fulfill the request. The reconfiguration is initiated when a value associated with the request exceeds a cost associated with fulfilling the request. The reconfiguration is initiated in response to determining that the request cannot be fulfilled according to the current configuration.

Allocating computing resources

Techniques, including systems and methods, for organizing access to computing resources include dynamically mapping identifiers of data zones to data zones. A request for initiation of one or more computing resources is received. The request specifies an identifier of a data zone. Responsive to the request, the specified identifier is mapped to a data zone. The requested computing resources are initiated in the data zone to which the identifier was mapped.

Dynamic resource zone mapping

In certain embodiments, a computer-implemented method includes accessing a request to instantiate a virtual machine from a user, accessing virtual machine lifetime data, and determining, based at least in part on the virtual machine lifetime data, a probable lifetime for the virtual machine. The virtual machine lifetime data includes actual lifetime data for a prior virtual machine that was previously instantiated. The actual lifetime data indicates an amount of time that the prior virtual machine was operational.

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James A G Greenfield