Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Santiago Martin Segarra

Srikanth Kandula

Ranveer Chandra

Himanshu Raj

Ryan Andrew Beckett

Behnaz Arzani

Tsuwang Hsieh

Pooria Namyar

Sathiya Kumaran Mani

Securing and optimizing communications for a cloud service provider includes collecting connection summary information at network interface devices associated with host computing devices for a group of resources allocated to a customer of the cloud computing environment. The connection summary information includes local address information, remote address information, and data information, each connection established via the network interface devices. At least one communication graph is generated for the group of resources using the connection summary information. The graph includes nodes that represent communication resources of the group of resources and edges extending between nodes that characterize communication between the nodes. At least one analytics process is performed on data from the graph to identify at least one of a micro-segmentation strategy, a communication pattern, and a flow prediction for the group of resources.

Communication visualization and analytics system for public clouds

A computing device is provided, including a processor that receives a network graph. The processor further receives a specification of a network traffic control heuristic for a network traffic routing problem over the network graph. The processor further constructs a gap maximization problem that has, as a maximization target, a difference between an exact solution to the network traffic routing problem and a heuristic solution generated using the network traffic control heuristic. The processor further generates a Lagrange multiplier formulation of the gap maximization problem. At a convex solver, the processor further computes an estimated maximum gap as an estimated solution to the Lagrange multiplier formulation of the gap maximization problem. The processor further performs a network traffic control action based at least in part on the estimated maximum gap.

Network traffic control using estimated maximum gap

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