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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 27, 2019
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Yilin Guo, Seattle, WA (US);

Christopher Magee Greenwood, Seattle, WA (US);

Mitchell Flaherty, Seattle, WA (US);

Sriram Venugopal, Issaquah, WA (US);

Wells Lin, Bellevue, WA (US);

Patrick E. Brennan, Seattle, WA (US);

Linfeng Yu, Seattle, WA (US);

Alexander R. Yee, Seattle, WA (US);

Gary Michael Herndon, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 9/38 (2018.01); G06F 17/15 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/5016 (2013.01); G06F 9/3885 (2013.01); G06F 9/542 (2013.01); G06F 17/15 (2013.01); H04L 67/1097 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed for handling requests to create multiple volumes with an expected usage correlation on a block storage service. Rather than handling each request to create a volume independently, embodiments described herein can handle the request in bulk, quickly determining whether the request as a whole can be handled at the system. In one embodiment, the service allows for oversubscription of use on hosts, as well as parallelization of placement decisions, by rejecting placement requests when a number of possible hosts for a volume within a requested set falls below a candidate set size, which is determined based on factors such as a number of requested volumes and an expected accuracy of state information for the service at a placement engine within a distributed set of engines.


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