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Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 02, 2016
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);

Inventors:

Christopher Magee Greenwood, Seattle, WA (US);

Gary Michael Herndon, Jr., Seattle, WA (US);

Surya Prakash Dhoolam, Seattle, WA (US);

Mitchell Gannon Flaherty, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0631 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0647 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01);
Abstract

The allocation of resources, such as for data storage, can be performed based at least in part upon predicted values for utilization and growth, among other such values. Various features can be used to predict the initial utilization and growth rate for a data volume, and these predicted values can be used to determine where to place the volumes. The features can include, for example, customer usage history, volume type, volume purpose, type of attached virtual machine, and the like. The ability to predict actual usage can enable capacity to be allocated based on an as-needed basis instead of providing large blocks of allocated capacity that would go largely unused. Similar predictions can be used to determine whether and where to migrate data volumes so as to maintain sufficient capacity across a group of resources.


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