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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2016
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Stig Manning, Cape Town, ZA;
Diwakar Gupta, Seattle, WA (US);
Marnus Freeman, Rouxville, ZA;
Georgios Elissaios, Seattle, WA (US);
Joshua Dawie Mentz, Cape Town, ZA;
André Mostert, Cape Town, ZA;
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A provider network determines which servers to use to host a group of virtual machines for a customer. A placement manager within the provider network employs a placement technique which prioritizes spreading virtual machines for the customer across different 'subzones.' A subzone is a logical division of a provider network's hardware and/or software denoting risk boundaries. By placing virtual machines in separate subzones, the customer's virtual machines and thus the task collectively performed by the virtual machines are less impacted by a failure within one of the subzones.