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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2018
Applicant:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Inventors:
Aaron Graydon Bannert, Seattle, WA (US);
Nitish Goyal, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4881 (2013.01); G06F 9/505 (2013.01); G06F 9/543 (2013.01);
Abstract
Techniques for load balancing based on relative credit balances are described. For example, one embodiment of a method comprises: determining current credit balances for a plurality of compute instances; receiving a request; selecting one of the compute instances to be a destination for the request based on a comparison of the current credit balances; and transmitting the request to the selected compute instance.