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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2015
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Surya Prakash Dhoolam, Seattle, WA (US);
Mitchell Gannon Flaherty, Seattle, WA (US);
Christopher Magee Greenwood, Seattle, WA (US);
Gary Michael Herndon, Jr., Seattle, WA (US);
Rahul Karnik, Seattle, WA (US);
Sriram Venugopal, Seattle, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Data volumes hosted for customers in a multi-tenant environment can be moved advantageously throughout the environment to improve performance and reduce cost. A data volume can serve I/O for a virtual machine instance, and it can be advantageous for the virtual machine and the data volume to be in the same network locality, or share at least some of the same network state and interconnection. Since there is limited capacity in a network locality, data volumes not attached to virtual machines can be moved to other locations in the environment. This can include moving data volumes to other local network topologies or snapshotting data volumes and writing the snapshots to another storage service. If the data volume is again needed for I/O, the data volume can moved, allocated, or reattached as necessary.