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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2016
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Bradley Joseph Gussin, Seattle, WA (US);
Pratik Ramdharne, Seattle, WA (US);
Qiang Du, Seattle, WA (US);
Chen Yang, Seattle, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A method for removing computing assets from service in a provider network includes receiving, from a requestor, identification for selected ones of the computing assets requested to be removed from service. Each of the computing assets is a computing device or a slot of a computing device. A pool in which each of the computing assets requested to be removed from service is located is identified. For each identified pool: which of the computing assets requested to be removed from service is approved for removal from service is determined based on a number of resource instances available for allocation to users after the computing devices are removed from service exceeding a predetermined number of resource instances. The requestor is notified as to which of the computing assets is approved for removal from service.