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Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2020

Filed:

Dec. 15, 2015
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Joshua Dawie Mentz, Western Cape, ZA;

Diwakar Gupta, Seattle, WA (US);

Michael Groenewald, Western Cape, ZA;

Alan Hadley Goodman, Issaquah, WA (US);

Marnus Freeman, Kuilsrivier, ZA;

Assignee:

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

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01);
Abstract

A component of a computing service obtains respective indications of placement policies that contain host selection rules for application execution environments such as guest virtual machines. With respect to a request for a particular application execution environment, a group of applicable placement policies is identified. A candidate pool of hosts is selected using the group of placement policies, and members of the pool are ranked to identify a particular host on which the requested application execution environment is instantiated.


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