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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2021
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Afshin Majd, Seattle, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are described for enabling a service provider to determine the power utilization of electrical lineups and sub-lineups powering physical servers in a data center and place virtual machine instances into the physical servers based on the power utilization and a user-specified preference of a virtual machine instance type. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes determining a power utilization for each sub-lineup of a plurality of sub-lineups of each lineup of a plurality of lineups, wherein each sub-lineup comprises a plurality of racks of physical servers, selecting a sub-lineup for the virtual machine instance based at least in part on the power utilizations for the plurality of sub-lineups, selecting a virtual machine slot for the virtual machine instance from a plurality of candidate virtual machine slots of the physical servers of the sub-lineup based on the user-specified preference, and causing the virtual machine slot of a physical server of the sub-lineup to execute the virtual machine instance.