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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2015
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
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;
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
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.