Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Oleksii Tsai

Alexey Gadalin

Nikolay Krasilnikov

Anton Valter

Guy Sebastian Parton

Generally described, one or more aspects of the present application relate to an instance cloning service for cloning a running virtual machine instance and configuring the resources of the new virtual machine instance created by cloning the running virtual machine instance. For example, the instance cloning service can create the new virtual machine instance and attach it to a storage volume to which the original virtual machine instance is attached. The instance cloning service may subsequently move the new virtual machine instance to another storage volume (e.g., based on a user request or based on the performance of the instances). Alternatively, upon cloning, the instance cloning service may attach the new virtual machine instance to a new storage volume. For example, the instance cloning service may use copy-on-write to provide the new virtual machine instance with its own storage volume.

Virtual machine cloning and resource configuration

This disclosure leverages multi-attach to block store volumes for more reliable live migration of virtualized resources. A block storage client of a virtualized resource operating on a source host in a first data center can be attached to a block storage volume stored on block storage hosts in the first data center. State data associated with the virtual machine can be transmitted from the source host to a target host, after which the virtual machine can run on the target host and operations of the virtualized resources may be ceased on the source host. Failure of the migration may require roll back to the source host. The source host may remain connected to the volume while the target host client connects to the volume, such that the volume may be accessed by the block storage client on the source host after rollback to provide uninterrupted operation of the virtual machine.

Multiple simultaneous volume attachments for live migration between cloud regions and edge locations

Techniques for a device with NUMA a memory architecture to migrate virtual resources between NUMA nodes to reduce resource contention between virtual resources running on the NUMA nodes. In some examples, the device monitors various metrics and/or operations of the NUMA nodes and/or virtual resources, and detect events that indicate that virtual resources running on a same NUMA node are contending, or are likely to contend, for computing resources of the NUMA node. Upon detecting such an event, the device may migrate a virtual resource from the NUMA node to another NUMA node on the device that has an availability of computing resources. The device may then migrate the virtual resource from the overcommitted NUMA node onto the NUMA node that has availability to run the virtual resource. In this way, devices may reduce resource contention among virtual resources running on a same NUMA node.

Migrating virtual resources between non-uniform memory access (NUMA) nodes

This disclosure describes systems, devices, and techniques for migrating virtualized resources between the main region and edge locations. Live migration enables virtualized resources to remain operational during migration. Edge locations are typically separated from secure data centers via the Internet, a direct connection, or some other intermediate network. Accordingly, to place virtualized resources within an edge location, the virtualized resources must be migrated over a secure communication tunnel that can protect virtualized resource data during transmission over the intermediate network. The secure communication tunnel may have limited data throughput. To efficiently utilize resources of the secure communication tunnel, and to reduce the impact of migrations on virtualized resource operations, virtualized resource migrations may be carefully scheduled in advance. For instance, virtualized resources may be selectively migrated at times-of-day in which they are likely to be relatively idle, or at times when the communication tunnel is predicted to have sufficient bandwidth.

Dynamic scheduling for live migration between cloud regions and edge locations

This disclosure describes systems, devices, and techniques for live migrating virtualized resources between the main region and edge locations. Live migration enables virtualized resources to remain operational during migration. Edge locations are typically separated from secure data centers via the Internet, a direct connection, or some other intermediate network. Accordingly, to place virtualized resources within an edge location, the virtualized resources must be migrated over a secure communication tunnel that can protect virtualized resource data during transmission over the intermediate network. The secure communication tunnel may have limited data throughput. To efficiently utilize resources of the secure communication tunnel, virtualized resource data may be transferred over the tunnel in a two-stage process. The disclosed technology provides various techniques for dynamically selecting which virtualized resource data, and how much virtualized resource data, is transferred over each of the pre-copy and post-copy stages.

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Kenmore, WA, United States of America

Oleksii Tsai