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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2020
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Ankit Jain, Seattle, WA (US);
Murtaza Muidul Huda Chowdhury, Sammamish, WA (US);
Srinivasan Ramkumar, Milpitas, CA (US);
Anup P. Pandya, Milpitas, CA (US);
Siddharth Padmanabhan Ramanarayanan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ramapulla Reddy Chennuru, Milpitas, CA (US);
Niti S. Khadapkar, Union City, CA (US);
Anupama Anand, Cupertino, CA (US);
Jaco Joubert, Cape Town, ZA;
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for automated defragmentation of licensed resources in a provider network are described. A defragmentation service in a provider network can detect the existence of intra-host fragmentation and/or inter-host fragmentation among host computing devices belonging to a host resource group of hosts dedicated to particular users. The defragmentation service can cause instances to be migrated to new locations within the host resource group to reduce or eliminate the fragmentation, allowing for hosts to beneficially be removed from the host resource group. The defragmentation service may determine which instances to be moved based on considerations involving software licenses associated with the host computing devices.