The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.

The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2019

Filed:

Dec. 18, 2015
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Joshua Dawie Mentz, Cape Town, ZA;

Diwakar Gupta, Seattle, WA (US);

Georgios Elissaios, Seattle, WA (US);

Marnus Freeman, Kuilsrivier, ZA;

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/1093 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01);
Abstract

Apparatus and method are described that relate to reserved virtual machine instances and location policies. Customers of a provider network can reserve one or more reserved virtual machine instances in a reservation and also specify a location policy for the reservation. The location policy provides restrictions as to which hardware may or may not be used to launch the reserved instances and/or how close together the hardware should or should not be to launch the instances of the reservation. The location policies afford customers some degree of control over which hardware is used by the provider network to launch the instances. As such, customers can help control increase security and/or reduce latency of their instances, or control other aspects of their instances.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Loading…