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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2018
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Christopher Magee Greenwood, Seattle, WA (US);
Yilin Guo, Seattle, WA (US);
Wells Lin, Seattle, WA (US);
Mitchell Gannon Flaherty, Seattle, WA (US);
Sriram Venugopal, Issaquah, WA (US);
Linfeng Yu, Seattle, WA (US);
Patrick E. Brennan, Seattle, WA (US);
Gary Michael Herndon, Jr., Seattle, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A new metadata field is described that can be used with requests to store a volume in a block storage service. The metadata field is a parameter included in the request and is a logical association identifier that associates the volume to be stored with other already-stored volumes. Using this logical association identifier, the block storage service can ensure that all volumes having the same identifier are sufficiently spread across server computers. The logical association identifier can be a workload identifier indicating that the volumes are all from a same relational database, application, etc. Target customers are defined as customers that request an action of a service within a cloud environment and the service then makes a request to the block storage service. In this case, the service is a customer of the block storage service and it can pass the target customer identifier as the logical association identifier.