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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2022
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Amol Manohar Vaikar, Pune, IN;
VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosure provides an approach for distribution of functions among data centers of a cloud system that provides function-as-a-service (FaaS). For example, the disclosure provides one or more function distributors configured to receive a request for loading or executing a function, automatically determine an appropriate data center to load or execute the function, and automatically load or execute the function on the determined data center. In certain embodiments, the function distributors are further configured to determine an appropriate data center to provide storage resources for the function and configure the function to utilize the storage resources of the determined data center.