Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Sudharsan Balakrishnan Sripadham

Ekanth Sethuramalingam

Raviprasad Venkatesha Murthy Mummidi

Sophia Yeemei Tsang

Nagaraju Shiramshetti

Amita Ekbote

Hari Subramanian

Murali Krishna Sangubhatla

Yair Tor

Suren Jamiyanaa

Daniel Manesku

Andrey Terentyev

The devices and methods relate to web categorization of web requests. The devices and methods may perform a two-step classification of the web requests. The first classification may provide potential web categories for web request based on a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the web request. The first classification may be used to determine whether transport layer security (TLS) termination may be performed on the web request. The second classification may provide a web category for a uniform resource locator (URL) of the web request after performing the TLS termination. The web category may be used by a firewall in filtering web traffic for the web request.

Performing transport layer security (TLS) termination using categories of web categorization

Techniques are described for importing and using virtual machine images in configured manners, such as by a virtual machine image importation service on behalf of clients. An image may be retrieved based on a client-provided location, and various characteristics of the image may be identified via application of multiple heuristic or other assessment tests to various aspects of the retrieved image such as a master boot record, filesystem, or directory structure of the image to determine a testing vector that is compared to identification vectors associated with known operating systems, in order to automatically determine a specific operating system installed on the image to be imported. Modifications may be made to drivers, configuration and system files of the retrieved image based on the identified operating system and other image characteristics.

Performing configuration and operating system identification for virtual machine images

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Sudharsan Balakrishnan Sripadham